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Paul_Cheshire; Stefano_Magrini - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the EU12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model which assumes perfect factor mobility does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating...

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Economic Geography and the Fiscal Effects of Regional Integration

Ludema, Rodney D.; Wooton, Ian - EconWPA - 1998

tax competition between national governments to influence the location of manufacturing activity. Labour is imperfectly … lower trade costs. We show that either type of integration may result in a decrease in the intensity of tax competition, and …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a principal-agent set-up with a risk neutral insurer and infinitely lived risk averse agents. Agents, who are characterised by different productivities or skills, are employed by firms...

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Advertising and the Media

Kremhelmer, Susanne; Zenger, Hans - EconWPA - 2004

This paper argues that advertising should be regarded as a transaction between a consumer and a firm that potentially generates a mutual benefit. We develop that there exists a problem of adverse selection, however, which makes it impossible to establish direct markets for advertising. The media...

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Sequential Models of Bertrand Competition for Deposits and Loans under Asymmetric Information

Bracoud, Frédérique - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyzes sequential games of double-sided Bertrand competition in the deposit and credit markets, when banks … are free to reject customers and cannot distinguish among borrowers. The timing of competition is crucial when customers … submitted to downward pressures otherwise. With multiple applications, the order of competition does not matter. Multiple …

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Heterogeneity in Convergence Rates and Income Determination across U.S. States: Evidence from County-Level Data

Young, Andrew; Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore growth determination in the U.S. and possible heterogeneity in growth determination across individual states. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. We use a consistent two stage least squares...

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RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF OSUMENYI TOWN(NNEWI SOUTH LGA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA}

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

THIS PAPER ENUNERATES THE SEQUENTIAL HISTORIC ORIGIN OF OSUMENYI VILLAGE AND ITS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC PRACTICES. IN OTHERWORDS, THE PAPER WILL HELP TO CLARIFY SOME OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGES AND ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN OSUMENYI'S HISTORY. THE PAPER RECOMMENDS THE...

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Financial contagion, interest rates and the role of the exchange rate as shock absorber in Central and Eastern Europe

Habib, Maurizio Michael - EconWPA - 2002

exchange rate regime, thereby re-establishing some credibility of the theory. …

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Causes and consequences of the 1982 Third World Debt Crisis

Stambuli, P. Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002

This paper investigates underlying causes of the debt crisis that only surfaced with Mexico’s unilateral moratorium on her foreign obligations in 1982. The paper investigates the evolutionary trend of LDC debt and the consequences for lenders, borrowers and the international financial system....

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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