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Measuring the competitiveness of elections
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951989
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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature
Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017
Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785693
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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic
Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022
of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415712
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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations
Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2020
internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316940
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An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development
Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2013
A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766680
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Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019
We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty reductions based on the standard that President Johnson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149105
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Embedding as a pitfall for survey-based welfare indicators : evidence from an experiment
Hetschko, Clemens; Reumont, Louisa von; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017 - This version: March, 2017
How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638276
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Ageing and fiscal imbalances across generations : concepts of measurement
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514130