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The Political Economics of the Arab Spring

Hodler, Roland - 2021

necessary. These predictions are consistent with observed outcomes in Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and elsewhere …

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Firm Response to Competitive Shocks : Evidence from China's Minimum Wage Policy

Hau, Harald - 2017

The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...

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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict

Jetter, Michael - 2018

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable,...

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Weapons of Choice

Dreher, Axel - 2015

This article investigates the effect of natural resources on whether ethno-political groups choose to pursue their goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that whether or not the extraction of fossil fuels sparks...

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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Jensen, Peter S. - 2021

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...

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The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Shadow Economy in Egypt

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2017

This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … to 2013, the impulse response analysis shows that the response of the shadow economy in Egypt to positive shocks in … globalization by reducing the costs of doing business and trade in dealing with sizable shadow economy in Egypt …

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Modelling the Egyptian Shadow Economy : A Currency Demand and A MIMIC Model Approach

Hassan, Mai - 2016

estimate the size of the shadow economy in Egypt during the last four decades (1976 to 2013). In addition to the standard …

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A Macroeconomic Analysis of Energy Subsidies in a Small Open Economy

Glomm, Gerhard - 2015

sector production. The model is calibrated to Egypt and used to study reforms such as reductions in energy subsidies with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027091

Learning Capitalism the Hard Way - Evidence from German Reunification

Triebs, Thomas - 2017

We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical German data. Firms' forecasts improve with age. We exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms in the East are treated with ignorance about the distribution...

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Macroeconomic Policy Making, Exchange Rate Adjustment and Current Account Imbalances in Emerging Markets

Duarte, Pablo - 2014

Since a series of crisis events after 2007, the discussion about the adjustment channels of current account imbalances has been revived. We discuss the effectiveness of exchange rates versus macroeconomic policies to rebalance current accounts for a set of 86 mainly emerging market economies. We...

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