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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …

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Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?

Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2001

, multinational enterprises rather appear to be attracted by countries in which civil and political freedom is respected. Our finding …

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Political Repression and Child Labor: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2004

more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …

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Does Liberté = Egalité? A Survey of the Empirical Evidence on the Links between Political Democracy and Income Inequality

Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko - CESifo - 2000

The relationship between the distribution of political rights and that of economic resources has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the existing literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence.Our reading of the literature suggests that formal...

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Implementation of Communication Equilibria by Correlated Cheap Talk : The Two-Player Case

Vida, Peter - 2011

We show that essentially every communication equilibrium of any finite Bayesian game with two players can be implemented as a strategic form correlated equilibrium of an extended game, in which before choosing actions as in the Bayesian game, the players engage in a possibly infinitely long (but...

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Ageing, Government Budgets, Retirement, and Growth

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín - 2011

We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...

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Emotions in Litigation Contests

Baumann, Florian - 2011

This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...

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Commodity Tax Structure Under Uncertainty in a Perfectly Competitive Market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2011

In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on output for a specific (unit) tax can enhance welfare in imperfectly competitive markets and is without impact in a competitive world. This paper demonstrates that a substitution...

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Strategic Nonlinear Income Tax Competition with Perfect Labor Mobility

Bierbrauer, Felix J. - 2011

Tax competition between two governments who choose nonlinear income tax schedules to maximize the average utility of its residents when skills are unobservable and labor is perfectly mobile is examined. We show that there are no Nash equilibria in which there is a skill type that pays positive...

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Shall We Keep the Highly Skilled at Home? The Optimal Income Tax Perspective

Simula, Laurent - 2011

We examine how allowing individuals to emigrate to pay lower taxes abroad changes the optimal non-linear income tax scheme in a Mirrleesian economy. An individual emigrates if his domestic utility is less than his utility abroad net of migration costs, utilities and costs both depending on...

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