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Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement
Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - CESifo - 2012
Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...
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Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - CESifo - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body … determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country and panel data evidence of another … important determinant of trust—the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require …
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Income Inequality and Oligarchs in Russian Regions : A Note
Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2017
We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path towards market economy, among other factors, gave rise to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955282
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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO
Baccini, Leonardo - 2017
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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Dumping in Developing and Transition Economies
Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - CESifo - 2004
We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to...
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Aggregate Wage Flexibility in Selected New EU Member States
Babetskii, Ian - 2013
A fixed exchange rate regime eliminates one degree of freedom in absorbing macroeconomic shocks. Therefore, there is a call for higher labor market flexibility in countries which are members of the monetary union or those which intend to join the monetary union. Focusing on the cross-country...
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Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Transition Economies : Surveying the Surveyable
Égert, Balázs - 2013
This paper surveys recent advances in the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM). In particular, while laying out the functioning of the separate channels in the MTM, special attention is paid to exploring possible interrelations between different channels through which they may amplify or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754233
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The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance : Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas - 2016
levels of trust and reduced social activity in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982258
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Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Transition Economies: Surveying the Surveyable
Egert, Balazs; MacDonald, Ronald - CESifo - 2006
This paper surveys recent advances in the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM). In particular, while laying out the functioning of the separate channels in the MTM, special attention is paid to exploring possible interrelations between different channels through which they may amplify or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094342
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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge - 2006
Labor courts play an important role in determining the effective level of labor market regulation in Germany, but their application of law may not be even-handed. Based on a simple theoretical model and a new panel data set, we identify a nomination bias in labor court activity - that is, court...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779784