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Regime spoiler or regime pawn : the military and distributional conflict in non-democracies
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014
I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the citizens. In the event of a revolt by the citizens, the military may choose to support the autocrat to crush the revolt or play a passive role. The autocrat determines the...
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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249922
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor);  … - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … Western Europe is small and rather balanced in terms of skill structures, while there appears to be a brain drain from Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771831
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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, Vladimir - 2009
including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898817
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes : simulations for selected OECD countries
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514127
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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Social health insurance : the major driver of unsustainable fiscal policy?
Hagist, Christian; Klusen, Norbert; Plate, Andreas; … - 2005
framework how unsustainable the public finances of France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. are, given their demographic …
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State visits and international trade
Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2005
the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003202927