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Perfect Bayesian implementation
Brusco, Sandro - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 5 (1995), pp. 419-444
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001180191
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Double implementation in Nash and undominated Nash equilibria in social choice environments
Tatamitani, Yoshikatsu - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 3 (1993) 1, pp. 109-117
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001136000
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Inter- and intra-generational consequences of pension buffer policy under demographic, financial and economic shocks
Bucciol, Alessandro; Beetsma, Roel - 2009
simulations show that pension buffers are highly volatile when the shocks are drawn from realistically modelled multivariate shock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883861
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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union
Hefeker, Carsten - 2000
The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781545
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The political economy of Kazakhstan: a case of good economics, bad politics?
Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - 2021
investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? Kazakhstan is a case where an autocratic regime … has actively projected market-friendly policies and attracted significant amounts of incoming investment. These policies … investment disputes that question the attachment to the rule of law. Moreover, the political regime remains strongly personalized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589873
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Yardstick competition, corruption, and electoral incentives
Long, Ngo Van (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that voters use a yardstick criterion. The incumbent provides a public good and extracts rent, which are financed by imposing a distortionary tax. We demonstrate the possibility that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730296
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755931
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International labor standards and the political economy of child labor regulation
Doepke, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2008
Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760253
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A new model of wage determination and wage inequality
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2008
. We use probability theory to derive initial results, including both distribution-independent and distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778992
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The customs union issue : why do we observe so few of them?
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor); Silva, Peri (contributor);  … - 2008
The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can be considered to be fully fledged customs unions. This paper develops a political economy model...
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