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The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War

Qian, Nancy; Yanagizawa-Drott, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters’ strategic value. We use the difference between the U.S. State Department’s and Amnesty International’s reports as a measure of U.S....

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On Sustainable Pay-As-You-Go Systems

Demange, Gabrielle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

An unfunded Social Security system faces a major risk, sometimes referred to as ‘political risk’. In order to account … properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked from each newborn …-generational redistribution, risk aversion, financial markets, governmental debt- on the political sustainability of a pay-as-you-go system is …

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Country Size and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Study

Torstensson, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We formulate a simple model that captures two recent hypotheses: (i) that countries with an abundant absolute endowment of skilled labour will be net exporters in R&D-intensive industries; and (ii) that countries with a large domestic market will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries....

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The Exchange Rate Policy of the Euro: A Matter of Size?

Martin, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper analyses how country size affects exchange rate policy and volatility. A hump-shaped relation between exchange rate variability and the size of countries is generated in the theoretical model: exchange rate variability increases with country size for small countries, but then...

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Mark-ups, Entry Regulation and Trade: Does Country Size Matter?

Hoekman, Bernard; Kee, Hiau Looi; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Actual and potential competition is a powerful source of discipline on the pricing behavior of firms with market power. A simple model is developed that shows that the effects of import competition and domestic entry regulation on industry price-cost markups depend on country size. Barriers to...

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Country Asymmetries, Endogenous Product Choice and the Speed of Trade Liberalization

Cabrales, Antonio; Motta, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We analyse the effects of trade liberalization on firms' decisions and profits, and on consumers' welfare, in a product differentiation model with countries of different size. Firms decide product specifications at the beginning of the game, in which autarky is followed by trade liberalization...

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Country Size, Currency Unions, and International Asset Returns

Hassan, Tarek - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Differences in real interest rates across developed economies are puzzlingly large and persistent. I propose a simple explanation: Bonds issued in the currencies of larger economies are expensive because they insure against shocks that affect a larger fraction of the world economy. I show that...

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Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity

Harhoff, Dietmar; von Graevenitz, Georg; Wagner, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We investigate incidence and evolution of patent thickets. Our empirical analysis is based on a theoretical model of patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model captures how competition for patent portfolios and complementarity of patents affect patenting incentives. We show that...

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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, ie the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I call...

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Consistency in Simple vs. Complex Choices over the Life Cycle

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D; Combs, T. Dalton; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Employing a variant of GARP, we study consistency in aging by comparing the choices of younger adults (YA) and older adults (OA) in a 'simple', two-good and a `complex' three-good condition. We find that OA perform worse than YA in the complex condition but similar in the simple condition....

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