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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration
Flueckiger, Matthias - 2019
We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by...
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The Taxation of Couples
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023
This paper studies the tax treatment of couples. We develop two different approaches. One is tailored to the analysis of tax systems that stick to the principle that the tax base for couples is the sum of their incomes. One is tailored to the analysis of reforms toward individual taxation. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356606
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Energy Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Input-Output Linkages
Blackburn, Christopher J. - 2020
Industrial activity periodically experiences breakthrough innovations in energy efficiency, but the estimated impacts of these innovations on aggregate energy use are highly varied. We develop a general equilibrium model to investigate whether this variation is determined by the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844213
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Household models: an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007
the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to … provide a deeper understanding of the current theoretical literature on household economics by means of a survey of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264270
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The effect of child care on family structure: Theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281794
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On the optimality of joint taxation for non-cooperative couples
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2010
We present a non-cooperative model of a family's time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to overprovision of the public good, spouses' failure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270532
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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2019
institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892043
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Alphabetized Co-Authorship in Economics Reconsidered
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021
American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Using more than 120,000 multi-authored articles from the Web of Science economics … subject category, we demonstrate first that the alphabetization rate in economics has declined over the last decade. Second …, we find no statistically significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations in economics using six …
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Classifying Top Economists Using Archetypoid Analysis
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021
Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach allows us to identify typical characteristics of extreme (archetypal) values in a multivariate data set. In contrast to its predecessor, the archetypal analysis, archetypoids...
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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021
economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer …
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