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Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
Bandiera, Oriana; Larcinese, Valentino; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that -- (i) at … smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of …
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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labour Economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
focused research efforts and clearer career incentives. …
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People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people’s economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys...
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Five Puzzles in the Behaviour of Productivity, Investment and Innovation
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
work after school and college students must work to pay for much of their educational expense. There is a chasm of values …
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Risk and Intermediation in a Dual Financial Market Model
Bloise, Gaetano; Reichlin, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper investigates the relationship between risk and productive activity and the degree of financial intermediation in a model with moral hazard. Entreprenuers can simultaneously get credit from two types of competing institutions: ‘financial intermediaries’ and ‘local lenders’. The...
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Culture and Institutions
Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
How and why does distant political and economic history shape the functioning of current institutions? This paper argues that individual values and convictions about the scope of application of norms of good conduct provide the "missing link". Evidence from a variety of sources points to two...
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The Neuroconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy
Fehr, Ernst; Singer, Tania - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The most fundamental solution concepts in Game Theory – Nash equilibrium, backward induction, and iterated elimination of dominated strategies – are based on the assumption that people are capable of predicting others' actions. These concepts require people to be able to view the game from...
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Why Was Europe Left at the Station when America's Productivity Locomotive Departed?
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
After fifty years of catching up to the US level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind. The growth rate in output per hour over 1995-2003 in Europe was just half that in the United States, and this annual growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity to fall...
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Relating Output and Volatility in a Model of International Risk-Sharing with Limited Commitment
Reichlin, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
I study the constrained efficient allocations of a simple model of risk sharing and capital flows across countries assuming that each country cannot commit to fully repay its contract obligations. In the model, the degree of risk sharing and the amount of investment are interdependent. It is...
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Theory and the Market after the Crisis: the Endogeneity of Financial Governance
Underhill, Geoffrey R D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The inheritance of contemporary financial economics invites us to consider financial stability as integral to a liberal market setting. The crisis however demonstrated that financial markets may prove highly dysfunctional in the absence of adequate mechanisms of regulation and governance. This...
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