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This theoretical paper intends to provide an explanation of the implementation of behind-the-border policies, border policies, and of the inefficiency of trade negotiations. We consider a general equilibrium model of international trade with two identical countries, two commodities, a...
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Bioeconomic models can provide powerful insights into the interactions between people and the natural ecosystems on which they depend. For example, bioeconomic models of fisheries have long been used to provide early warnings about the sustainability of harvest levels or the impacts of new...
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The aim of this paper is to assess of the impact of the European Union’s trade preferences on global trade, focusing on several methodological issues that are relevant to the trade-creating impact of these preferences. Using highly disaggregated eight-digit data in a theoretically...
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attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …
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"The link between economic distribution and social conflict—and the notion that this link arises from individuals … discussing a measure of polarization that allows analysis of the distribution of society along two dimensions—an economic …
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This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …
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competitiveness of the environment and there is no significant difference in performance in the real-effort task across the …
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games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …
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