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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The region offers a unique assessment opportunity since cities are characterized by shared cultural and historical legacies, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes....

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Courts, firms and allocation of credit

Shvets, Julia - EconWPA - 2005

The paper investigates whether and how performance of regional commercial courts has affected external credit of Russian enterprises between 1995 and 2002. The results show that more reliable courts lead to higher bank lending to firms. This occurs predominantly through expansion of the number...

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Police numbers up, crime rates down. The effect of police on crime in the Netherlands, 1996-2003

Vollaard, Ben - EconWPA - 2005

regions, allowing us to use this policy intervention to identify the effect of police on crime and nuisance. We control for …We present evidence on the effect of greater numbers of police personnel on crime and nuisance reduction in the … Netherlands. We use a multiple time series design with police regions as the unit of analysis, covering the period 1996 …

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

studied. In the areas of corrective services, police services and public hospitals the results reported in this paper indicate …

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Should Central Banks Burst Bubbles?

Conlon, John - EconWPA - 2005

Policy towards speculative bubbles is examined in a model of a finite horizon 'greater fool' bubble, with rational … dynamics and welfare economics to analyze bubble policies. Government policy is modeled as deflating overpriced assets by … revealing information about whether or not the asset is overpriced. It is shown that such a policy tends to improve welfare if …

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Policy Issues in Rural Transformation (The Indain Scenerio)

Bhargava, Harsh; Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005

Policy plays a significant role in nation building. This paper attempts to highlight the role of policy issues in … policies. If we take a snapshot of our history of the last 60 years since independence, we find that many policy initiatives … may lead to social and economic fragmentation of the country. We also bring out few recent policy initiatives of the …

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

agenda for reform is clear. Therefore, the thrust of this project is to formulate a model-based viable health policy reforms …

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An Interview with Paul A. Samuelson

Barnett, William A.; Samuelson, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper consists of the page proofs of W. A. Barnett's interview of Paul A. Samuelson, to appear in print in the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, in September 2004. To our knowledge, this is the first and only interview of Paul A. Samuelson published in a professional economics journal. In...

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Bad Policies Under an Autocrat's Production

Jeong, Byeongju - EconWPA - 2001

Bad policies (i.e., policies harmful to private producers such as excessive taxation, arbitrary confiscation, and negligence of pubic goods) are observed in quite a few countries. These countries tend to have autocratic regimes.I explore a reason why bad policies may benefit autocrats.I present...

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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on

Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003

In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries, three years after publication of the Commission’s...

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