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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2008

, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

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Is a public regulation of food price volatility feasible in Africa? An arch approach in Kenya

D'Hôtel, Elodie Maître; Cotty, Tristan Le; Jayne, Thomas - HAL - 2012

The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …

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A consensus model of political decision-making

Swart, Harrie De; Eklund, Patrik; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2008

government is deﬁned as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy … allow the criteria to be of unequal importance to a party. These criteria concern winning coalitions and policy issues …

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Acceptability factors to transport policy changes

Raux, Charles; Souche, Stéphanie - HAL - 2000

The authors have set out an analytical framework of the acceptability of pricing changes in the transport sector. This framework combines the dimensions of economic efficiency (to manage the demand efficiently), territorial equity (guarantee of accessibility), horizontal equity (user-pays...

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Around the World of cotton issues in ten months: a guide for navigation

Fok, Michel; Gourirand, Monica-Barbro - HAL - 2008

Cotton sectors are facing many issues which are quite well reported by online newspapers. Many issues are internal to the running of cotton sectors. They are little related to the international issue of market distortion, pertaining to the "cotton file" of the WTO. A number of issues impeding...

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Public Debt and Economic Geography

Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2012

and identical between countries except for the timing of taxation. Expected taxation rather than current tax levels …

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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2013

This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. Differences are driven by the heterogeneity in work preferences across countries and by methodological difference across studies (data, selection or model estimation...

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status, with measurement differences netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that...

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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Villeval, … - HAL - 2007

introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …

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Tax Rate Variability and Public Spending as Sources of Indeterminacy

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2008

. We analyze the role of public spending, financed by labor income and consumption taxation, on the emergence of …

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