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Morck, Randall; Fan, Joseph; Yeung, Bernard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...

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A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

Weingast, Barry R.; North, Douglass C; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Neither economics nor political science can explain the process of modern social development. The fact that developed societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics must be a fundamental part of the development...

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The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

Donohue, John J.; Aneja, Abhay; Zhang, Alexandria - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

consider when using panel data methods to resolve questions of law and policy effectiveness. We buttress the NRC’s cautious …

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Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Sunstein, Cass R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Many studies find that presentation of balanced information, offering competing positions, can promote polarization and thus increase preexisting social divisions. We offer two explanations for this apparently puzzling phenomenon. The first involves what we call asymmetric Bayesianism: the same...

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Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City

Mocan, Naci H.; Corman, Hope - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between alcohol consumption, deterrence, and crime for New York City. We examine high-frequency time-series data from 1983 to 2001 for one specific location to examine the impacts of variations in both alcohol consumption and deterrence on seven "index"...

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Patent Laws and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History

Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic history can help to inform important policy questions that have been difficult to answer with modern data: 1) Does the existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2)...

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Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying

Figueiredo, John M. de; Richter, Brian Kelleher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This essay identifies the empirical facts about lobbying which are generally agreed upon in the literature. It then discusses challenges to empirical research in lobbying and provides examples of empirical methods that can be employed to overcome these challenges--with an emphasis on statistical...

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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play

Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David; Dahl, Gordon B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such that each party seeks legal representation in the hope of exploiting the other party, while...

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Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine

Cheng, Cheng; Hoekstra, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

of imminent harm, and removing civil liability for those acting under the law. This paper examines whether aiding self … design by exploiting the within-state variation in law adoption. We find no evidence of deterrence; burglary, robbery, and … self-defense law is a net increase in homicide. Finally, we present back-of-the-envelope calculations using evidence on the …

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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin; Cull, Robert; Carletti, Elena; Qian, Jun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

With extensive country- and firm-level data sets we first document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We also find that population density appears to be considerably more important...

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