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Administrative Delays as Barriers to Trade

Régibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

new product into the market. The home government may apply an import tariff, an administrative delay or both to the … tariff and the administrative delay on the timing of new product introductions and the resulting changes in home, foreign and … world welfare. We show that administrative delays are less efficient instruments for maximizing home welfare than tariffs …

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Families as Shocks

Cubeddu, Luis; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this Paper we show the quantitative importance of the process that determines changes in family composition to determine the main macroeconomic magnitudes. We do so by modeling family type as a stochastic process that affects households in a way similar to shocks to earnings. Agents respond...

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The Missing Transfers: Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data

Comola, Margherita; Fafchamps, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Many studies have used self-reported dyadic data without exploiting the pattern of discordant answers. In this paper we propose a maximum likelihood estimator that deals with mis-reporting in a systematic way. We illustrate the methodology using dyadic data on inter-household transfers from the...

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Political Connections and Firm Value: Evidence from the Regression Discontinuity Design of Close Gubernatorial Elections

Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen-Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using the regression discontinuity design of close gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we identify a significant and positive impact of the social networks of corporate directors and politicians on firm value. Firms connected to elected governors increase their value by 3.89%. Political...

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Explaining the Black/White Employment Gap: The Role of Weak Ties

Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why minority workers have worse labor-market outcomes than majority workers. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing support in getting a job, we develop a...

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The Old Boy Network: Gender Differences in the Impact of Social Networks on Remuneration in Top Executive Jobs

Lalanne, Marie; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Using an original dataset describing the career history of some 16,000 senior executives and members of the non-executive board of US, UK, French and German companies, we investigate gender differences in the use of social networks and their impact on earnings. There is a large gender wage gap:...

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Professional Network and Career Coevolution

Berardi, Nicoletta; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of European and US companies. We build a dynamic model of career progression in which career moves both depend upon existing networks and contribute to the development of future...

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Peer Effects in Education, Sport, and Screen Activities: Local Aggregate or Local Average?

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop two different social network models with different economic foundations. In the local-aggregate model, it is the sum of friends' efforts in some activity that affects the utility of each individual while, in the local-average model, it is costly to deviate from the average effort of...

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Delinquent Networks

Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modelled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...

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Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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