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The Jesuits as Knowledge Brokers Between Europe and China (1582-1773): Shaping European Views of the Middle Kingdom
Millar, Ashley E. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870547
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Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the OptionsMarkets
Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2009
This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868704
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International Capital Flows under DispersedInformation: Theory and Evidence
Tille, Cédric; Van Wincoop, Eric - Finrisk - 2008
We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are speci…c to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868844
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565610
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Information, polarization and delegation in democracy
Schultz, Christian - 2003
have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404317
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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123030
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Do people value more informative news?
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019
We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156434
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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658035
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A survey of variants and extensions of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem
Hartmann, Sönke; Briskorn, Dirk - 2008
The resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) consists of activities that must be scheduled subject to precedence and resource constraints such that the makespan is minimized. It has become a well-known standard problem in the context of project scheduling which has attracted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304664
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Consumption, wealth, and income inequality: A tale of tails
Gaillard, Alexandre; Hellwig, Christian; Wangner, Philipp; … - 2023
We provide evidence that the distributions of consumption, labor income, wealth, and capital income exhibit asymptotic power-law behavior with a strict ranking of upper tail inequality, in that order, from the least to the most unequal. We show analytically and quantitatively that the canonical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480446