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In this paper I will examine the growth models of Romer (1986) and Lucas (1988) which constitute an important first core to the endogenous growth theory, in order to understand the characteristics, to highlight the relationship between knowledge and economic growth and / or emphasize the...
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In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...
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the efficient matching of workers to firms. This mechanism can be thought of as operated by a recruitment agency, an …
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The impact of new technology (ICT) on labour markets and welfare is analyzed in a model of matching. First, ICT lowers … cost and speed of market access, thus reducing frictions in matching a searching worker to an opportunity. It raises output …
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-effort experiment, we elicit measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential …
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The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the civil wars (Colombia … paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting information previously learned between the inhabitants of the town. For these … reasons, it is shown that information is a key phenomenon to understand civil wars. Moreover, as demonstrated in this work is …
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Economics, and other fields of social science are often criticized as unscientific for their apparent failures to formulate universal laws governing human societies. Whether economics is truly a science is one of the oldest questions. This paper attempts to create such universal laws, and...
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This paper aims to explore the relevance of the Asymmetric Information and the Theory of Argumentation TA in the …
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Why would social science need the help from quantum mechanics? First, there are many unanswerable questions in social science. Are financial markets predictable? How to predict the financial markets? These important questions are not answerable in the existing framework of finance or economics....
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We analyze the effect of the Statistical Capacity on government effectiveness/efficiency, using a cross-sectional and panel data for a sample of 48 countries African for a period of 2003-2008.The results show that Statistical Capacity positively affects government effectiveness/efficiency. The...
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