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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019
Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …
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Investing in Influence : How Minority Interests Can Prevail in a Democracy
Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021
How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal...
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Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India : Evidence from Night Lights Data
Ranjan, Priya; Talathi, Karan - 2021
physical infrastructure. Looking at the growth pattern during 1993 to 2013, directly ruled districts had a 1.84% lower annual … growth rate compared to indirectly ruled districts. As well, directly ruled districts were converging at a rate of 2% per …
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Minority voting and long-term decisions
Gersbach, Hans; Fahrenberger, Theresa - 2008
In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264290
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020
the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832183
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Local Capital Scarcity and Small Firm Growth : Evidence from Real Estate Booms in China
Hau, Harald - 2019
, reduce their bank lending, lower their investment rate and labor productivity, and reduce their output and TFP growth by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859607
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
potential of growth theory for the analysis of factors behind declining business dynamism and the need for further investigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861425
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How Exporters Grow
Fitzgerald, Doireann - 2020
We show that in successful episodes of export market entry, there are statistically and economically significant post-entry dynamics of quantities, but no post-entry dynamics of markups. This suggests that shifts in demand play an important role in successful entry, but that firms do not use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841929
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Trade Costs in Services : Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment
Christen, Elisabeth M. - 2020
the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for …
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