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This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I … China's options for future social improvements into three broad categories: policies that improve the stability and …
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This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...
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In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...
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estimate the impact on firm performance from smart sanctions deployed by the U.S. and EU against Russia beginning in 2014. We …
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This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has … affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia’s assault on February …
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The paper analyses the role of fiscal and monetary policy for the development of the current account imbalances in the euro area, including the most recent developments during the coronavirus crisis. Several financial transmission channels such as international bank lending, changes in TARGET2...
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This paper develops a tractable model of a society hit by a viral pandemic. It is sufficiently rich so as to relate the optimal decisions of the policymaker to the underlying characteristics of this society, in terms of preferences, social mores and economic structures. This allows us to make...
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What are the effects of austerity on distributional policy? We exploit the autonomy of Italian municipalities in setting non-linear income taxes and the exogenous introduction of a fiscal rule to show that austerity increases tax progressivity. Consistent with this evidence, we find that in a...
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globalization. We study two waves of representative population surveys conducted in Austria, one right before the Russian invasion … globalization and import dependency as a short-term reaction to economic turbulences and geopolitical upheaval at the onset of war … in Europe. We show that two months after the invasion, anti-globalization sentiment in general has not spread, but that …
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rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state increased security forces and levied taxes more efficiently after the uprising …
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