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greatly reduces bias in the most influential and precise estimates: conservatively accounting for capital taxes paid by the …
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discount rates than private agents. The economics depends on the costs and rates of technical progress in production of fossil … of atmospheric carbon and the relatively fast temperature response, and we allow for positive feedbacks. The politics …
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campaigns. We present a framework that incorporates supporters’ instrumental and expressive motives and illustrates that party …
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Based on contribution patterns to parties in Germany and elsewhere, we suggest that democracies should use a mixed system where private funding can play a larger role than public funding. In Germany the high level of public funding for parties can be reduced without expecting undesirable effects...
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NGO campaigns against firms with value chains involving production in developing and emerging economies are a salient … feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts … obtained from recently available data containing 102 532 campaigns by 4 343 NGOs targeting 11 429 firms from 145 countries …
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and decisive measures - a clear sign that the government's pledge to cut the deficit is credible. …
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In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...
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In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to...
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Oates and Schwab (1988) consider an economy with mobil capital and jurisdictions that suffer from local pollution. They show that welfare-maximizing jurisdictions implement the first-best, if they take prices as given and have at their disposal a capital tax and an environmental standard....
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We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the … implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …
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