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Why Not in Your Backyard? On the Location and Size of a Public Facility

Bellettini, Giorgio; Kempf, Hubert - 2021

In this paper, we tackle the issue of locating a public facility which provides a public good in a closed and populated territory. This facility generates differentiated benefits to neighborhoods depending on their distance from it. In the case of a Nimby facility, the smaller is the distance,...

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The Economic Determinants of U.S. Presidential Approval - A Survey

Berlemann, Michael - 2012

Even after four decades of research it remains unclear, whether presidential popularity depends on the state of the economy. While about half of all studies for the United States find a significant effect of unemployment and inflation on presidential popularity, the others do not. Additional...

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How Do Expectations About the Macroeconomy Affect Personal Expectations and Behavior?

Roth, Christopher - 2018

Using a representative online panel from the US, we examine how individuals' macroeconomic expectations causally affect their personal economic prospects and their behavior. To exogenously vary respondents' expectations we provide them with different professional forecasts about the likelihood...

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Iceland : How Could this Happen?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2014

This paper reviews economic developments in Iceland following its financial collapse in 2008, focusing on causes and consequences of the crash. The review is presented in the context of the Nordic region, with broad comparisons also with developments elsewhere on the periphery of Europe, in...

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Uncertainty Across Volatility Regimes

Angelini, Giovanni - 2018

We propose a new non-recursive identification scheme for uncertainty shocks, which exploits breaks in the unconditional volatility of macroeconomic variables. Such identification approach allows us to simultaneously address two major questions in the empirical literature on uncertainty: (i) Does...

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The Political Economics of the Arab Spring

Hodler, Roland - 2021

The Arab Spring has led to very different outcomes across the Arab world. I present a highly stylized model of the Arab Spring to better understand these differences. In this model, dictators from the ethnic or religious majority group concede power if their country is oil-poor, but can stay in...

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Competition between State Universities

Grazzini, Lisa - 2011

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching …

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Competition and Trust : Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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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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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

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