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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?
Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Central Europe. However, theoretical literature as wel as empirical research suggests that decentralisation is not by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836017
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Economics Research Ranking Place of Turkey in Europe
Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This research article evaluates the research rankings of economists and economics departments of Turkey with respect to … the top 10 economists and departments in Europe using RePEc data base as of December 2012. This article also provides some … useful policy recommendations for improving the research rankings of Turkish economists and economics institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111849
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Economic crisis, world economy, economics and economic policy.
Sherstnev, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the current discussions on the the state of economics with special focus on the interreletionships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151129
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World economy, economics and economic policy: what emerges after the crisis?
Sherstnev, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper analyzes the current discussions on the state of economics with special focus on the interrelationships … global economic crisis showed the limited ability of mainstream in economics to service the economic practice, and, therefore …, the attention of researchers and economic policy-makers was drawn again to some alternative views in economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108422
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The Influence of Ordoliberalism in European Integration Processes - A Framework for Ideational Influence with Competition Policy and the Economic and Monetary Policy as Examples
Nedergaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
How can one study the ideational influence of ordoliberalism on European integration processes? This is the overarching question answered in this paper where I propose a refined methodology, taking into account that the influence of ordoliberalism can vary over time and, more importantly, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109549
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Ranking policy and political economic journals
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to rank economic journals in the broader field of policy and political science. By using one composite input and one composite output the paper ranks 52 journals in a linear programming setting using data for the time period of 1996-2010. In addition for the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651406
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When Can Politicians Scare Citizens Into Supporting Bad Policies? A Theory of Incentives with Fear-Based Content
Lupia, Arthur; Menning, Jesse - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Analysts make competing claims about when and how politicians can use fear to gain support for suboptimal policies. Using a model, we clarify how common attributes of fear affect politicians’ abilities to achieve self-serving outcomes that are bad for voters. In it, a politician provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836312
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Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Explaining the Choices of Cognitively Limited Actors
Lupia, Arthur; Zharinova, Natasha; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Many claims about political behavior are based on implicit assumptions about human reasoning. One such assumption, that political actors think in complex and similar ways when assessing strategies, is nested within widely used game theoretic equilibrium concepts. Empirical research casts doubt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836867
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Criticism, Communication and Debate in Public Environment
Ortigueira, Luis C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents models of criticism, communication and debate in public environment, focusing on the types of criticism and countercriticism manifested in political debates and public management. The paper proposes: (i) a normative model showing how rational criticism and countercriticism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543784
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The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of June 2010
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
(Nobel memorial prize in economics 1972) finds a crucially different interpretation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530713