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Global Income Distribution and Poverty: Implications from the IPCC SRES Scenarios

Calzadilla, Alvaro - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …

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Statistical theories of income and wealth distribution

Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Chakrabarti, Bikas K. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable features independent of the specific economic, social and political conditions of the countries. We discuss a few physics-inspired multi-agent dynamic models along with their...

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Explaining the Variation in the Value of Building Energy Efficiency Certificates: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis

Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

The built environment has been identified as one of the cost effective platforms for reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. With policies and the know-how in existence, the real estate sector has already adopted measures such as building codes and energy efficiency labels to drive...

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An estimation of worker and firm effects with censored data

González de San Román, Ainara; Rebollo-Sanz, Yolanda F. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

In this paper, the authors develop a new estimation method that is suitable for censored models with two high-dimensional fixed effects and that is based on a sequence of least squares regressions, yielding significant savings in computing time and hence making it applicable to frameworks in...

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On the effects of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking

Lorz, Jens Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper deals with the influence of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking activities of local interest groups. It employs a model where households differ with respect to their endowment with the immobile factor land. Local governments decide about the level of...

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Institutional Constraints to Political Budget Cycles in the Enlarged EU

Ademmer, Esther; Dreher, Ferdinand - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper revisits Political Budget Cycles (PBCs) in the enlarged European Union (EU). Based on a panel of 25 current EU member states from 1996 to 2012, we show that governments frequently fiscally stimulate the economy prior to elections; a phenomenon that is seemingly not only an ‘Eastern...

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Focused power: Experiments, the Shapley-Shubik power index, and focal points

Geller, Chris R.; Mustard, Jamie; Shahwan, Ranya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Experiments evaluate the fit of human behaviour to the Shapley-Shubik power index (SSPI), a formula of voter power. Groups of six subjects with differing votes divide a fixed purse by majority rule in online chat rooms. Earnings proxy for measured power. Chat rooms and processes for selecting...

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Guilt aversion and redistributive politics: A moral intuitionist approach

Le Garrec, Gilles - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In mainstream economics individuals are supposed to be driven only by their self-interest. By contrast, surveys clearly show that people do care about fairness in their demand for redistribution. In this article, in the spirit of the new synthesis in moral psychology (Haidt, 2007: The new...

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Private Labels and International Trade: Trading Variety for Volume

Blanchard, Emily; Chesnokova, Tatyana; Willmann, Gerald - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms — either a...

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the Emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...

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