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The Role of Endogenous Skill Choice in an Aging Economy
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
This chapter analyzes the effects of an aging population on individual skill choices and the production structure by means of a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and probabilistic aging. The model allows for capital-skill complementarity, which strongly affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408449
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Impact of competition policy reforms on rural and regional Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118925
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Why Do Investors Still Hope? The Soviet Repudiation Puzzle (1918- 1919)
Kim, Oosterlinck - EconWPA - 2004
Based on an original database, this paper provides an empirical study of Tsarist bond prices reactions after their repudiation by the Soviets. For the two years following the repudiation two striking features of a representative Tsarist bond traded in Paris are highlighted: first, the price...
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556940
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Western Institution Building:The War, Hayek’s Cosmos and the WTO
Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2005
Despite the shortcomings of Hayek’s spontaneous order, there is a positive side, perhaps even a positive feedback. Hayek left us with a “what if” question and returns us to that initial opening of Pandora’s Box, or perhaps the initial onset of neo-realism, neo-liberalism,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407658
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The Modern World: The effect of democracy, colonialism and war on economic growth 1820-2000
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005
The paper uses the recently available data on growth rates, democracy, protectionism, and wars over the period 1820 to 2000 to look at the determinants of economic growth over the long-term. It is motivated by the following questions: what is the effect of democracy on growth, was colonialism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062416
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Terrorism Prevention: A General Model
Dietrich, Franz - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, I present and discuss a method for modelling an important trade-off faced by terrorism prevention policies: the trade-off between, on the one hand, trying to reduce people's inclination towards terrorism, and, on the other hand, trying to protect society against existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118920
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Stable Alliance Formation in Distributional Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R. - EconWPA - 2003
advantage in the conflict or that the joint production process exhibits increasing returns. Nor is there any presumption that …, the formation of alliances tends to reduce the severity of the conflict over the contestable resource. Furthermore …, despite the internal conflict that arises among the winning alliance’s members over the distribution of their joint product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126004
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - EconWPA - 2004
We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. We test a `greed’ theory focusing … dependence upon primary commodity exports and a large diaspora substantially increase the risk of conflict. Inconsistent with the … grievance theory, greater ethnic and religious diversity reduce the risk of conflict. The results are robust to correction for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407738
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A Trade Institution as a Peaceful Institution?
Caruso, Raul - EconWPA - 2004
Recent studies emphasize the occurrence of conflict as a rational economic activity as well as production and exchange … terms of economic utility and in terms of peace than in ^Qcontinuing conflict^R and ^Qobstructed trade^R scenarios. …
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