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About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on...
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The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...
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Public policies in the last 20 years have promoted in Italy the investment in renewable energy sources within the framework of climate change policies. Investment in renewables received generous incentives, leading to a rapid expansion in the capacity installed. Judicial inquiries have uncovered...
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this paper, I study whether the Dark Web has an impact on street crime, a common side effect of traditional drug trade. To … identify a causal effect, I use daily data from the US and exploit unexpected shutdowns of large online drug trading platforms … them. I find that shutting down Dark Web markets leads to a significant increase in drug trade in the streets. However, the …
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Mozambique is a significant heroin transit centre and the trade has increased to 40 tonnes or more per year, making it a major export which contributes up to $100 mn per year to the local economy. For 25 years the trade has been controlled by a few local trading families and tightly regulated by...
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We study the moral hazard effects of the drug copayment threshold in Finland using detailed prescription drug purchase … data. The analysis reveals that the average drug costs increase discontinuously by 17% at the threshold above which out …-of-pocket drug costs decrease substantially. Our results suggest an average price elasticity of -0.17, which indicates evident moral …
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