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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116042
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Genes, economics, and happiness
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fowler, James H.; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a baseline happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in explaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266103
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Withering academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university' and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274980
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Identifying the Effects of Place-Based Policies - Causal Evidence from Germany
Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480484
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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor; Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398652
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Language as a renewable resource: Import, dissipation, and absorption of innovations
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2012
The structural stability of different languages subject to the import of external elements is analyzed. We focus on the temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of import and dissipation of new elements is seen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288241
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Language as a Renewable Resource : Import, Dissipation, and Absorption of Innovations
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021
The structural stability of different languages subject to the import of external elements is analyzed. We focus on the temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of import and dissipation of new elements is seen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315865
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Simple Rules for Climate Policy and Integrated Assessment
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2018
A simple integrated assessment framework that gives rules for the optimal carbon price, transition to the carbon-free era and stranded carbon assets is presented, which highlights the ethical, economic, geophysical and political drivers of optimal climate policy. For the ethics we discuss the...
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Carbon Prices are Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package
Aune, Finn Roar - 2019
In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its...
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The Social Cost of Carbon and the Ramsey Rule
Withagen, Cees - 2019
The objective of this paper is to critically assess the use of simple rules for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that employ a rudimentary form of the Ramsey Rule. Two interrelated caveats apply. First, if climate change poses a serious problem, it is hard to justify an exogenous constant growth...
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