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Paying them to hate US : the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data on 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241071
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The risks of nation-building through military aid and intervention
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022
This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380559
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Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector
Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, Jouko - 2022
We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments are available. We find that private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482204
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Modelling the Egyptian shadow economy : a currency demand and a MIMIC model approach
Hassan, Mai; Schneider, Friedrich - 2016 - January, 20th 2016, Preliminary draft
estimate the size of the shadow economy in Egypt during the last four decades (1976 to 2013). In addition to the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418009
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A macroeconomic analysis of energy subsidies in a small open economy
Glomm, Gerhard; Jung, Jürgen - 2015
sector production. The model is calibrated to Egypt and used to study reforms such as reductions in energy subsidies with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479353
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Between hope and despair : Egypt's revolution and migration intentions
Giesing, Yvonne; Hassan, Reem - 2021
Young People in Egypt (HSYPE). Difference-in-difference estimations show that the revolution significantly decreased the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602185
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Energy expenditure in Egypt : empirical evidence based on a quantile regression approach
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe - 2021
This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 … Egypt are mainly due to variations in income, household size, and housing type. Our findings document substantial … policy implications regarding residential energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in Egypt. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415423
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The impact of economic globalization on the shadow economy in Egypt
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hassan, Mai - 2017 - This version: 24.03.2017
This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … to 2013, the impulse response analysis shows that the response of the shadow economy in Egypt to positive shocks in … globalization by reducing the costs of doing business and trade in dealing with sizable shadow economy in Egypt. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645904
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse (contributor);  … - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772147
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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Siciliani, Luigi (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612755