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Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi traders : refuting Edwards and Ogilvie
Greif, Avner (contributor) - 2008
Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...
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Contract enforcement, institutions and social capital : the Maghribi traders reappraised
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. (contributor);  … - 2008
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Behavioral and experimental economics can inform public policy : some thoughts
Riedl, Arno - 2009
Experimental and behavioral economics are well established branches in the economic science. This essay presents and … a brief introduction of what experimental and behavioral economics is, some behavioural regularities as presentation and … discussed. -- public economics ; experimental economics ; behavioral economics ; public policy …
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What should fiscal councils do?
Calmfors, Lars; Wren-Lewis, Simon - 2011
The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...
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The Swedish fiscal policy council : watchdog with a broad remit
Calmfors, Lars - 2012
The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council (FPC) set up in 2007 is one example of the recent international trend to create independent fiscal watchdogs. The FPC has established itself as an important participant in the Swedish economic policy discussion. The FPC has small resources and a broad remit...
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Ideology and dissent among economists : the Joint Economic Forecast of German economic research institutes
Ha Quyen Ngo; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina; Schinke, … - 2015
Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating minority votes in the Joint Economic Forecast of German...
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On the process of scientific policy advice : with special reference to economic policy
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2014
process of political advice: the traditional approach, the Public Choice approach and the Political Economy of Scientific …
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Reactivity in economic science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
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Between politics and economics
Zaunitzer, Hans-Eberhard - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 2 (1967) 6/7, pp. 183-185
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Intereconomics: a platform for economic policy debate
Preißl, Brigitte - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 42 (2007) 6, pp. 290-291
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