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Democratic tipping points
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...
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Men vote in Mars, women vote in Venus : a survey experiment in the field
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2013
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbentś campaign but to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766678
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A multiplicity of approaches to institutional analysis : applications to the government and the arts
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Four types of economicsʺ relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an extension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872188
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Motivation crowding theory : a survey of empirical evidence
Frey, Bruno S.; Jegen, Reto - 2000
The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical \lang1033 possibility of crowding effects is widely accepted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781519
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Contest for attention in a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
marketing expenditure. Although promotional activity is modelled as purely wasteful competition among firms for attention, it … are consistent with empirical evidence. First, if firms incur higher sunk costs for marketing, concentration and firm … become excessive, whereas being inefficiently low in the benchmark case without marketing. This has non-trivial consequences …
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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade
Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...
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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
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VAT and agriculture : lessons from Europe
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017
Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be "washed out" through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...
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Is Western European agriculture resilient to high temperatures?
Massetti, Emanuele; Van Passel, Steven; Apablaza, Camila - 2018
agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
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