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A market for connections
Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - 2012
connections in the presence of convex costs of networking. -- nominations ; rent-seeking ; networks ; politicians ; procurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535107
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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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Gravity redux : measuring international trade costs with panel data
Novy, Dennis - 2011
trade costs that indirectly infers trade frictions from observable trade data. I show that this trade cost measure is … show that U.S. trade costs with major trading partners declined on average by about 40 percent between 1970 and 2000, with … Mexico and Canada experiencing the biggest reductions. -- trade costs ; gravity ; multilateral resistance ; Ricardian trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349934
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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
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Flipping a coin : theory and evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340311
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Illusion of control and the pursuit of authority
Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2014
In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects' willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right … likelihood of receiving her preferred task if she rather than another participant makes the decision. Participants pay more to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347041
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Levelized product cost : concept and decision relevance
Reichelstein, Stefan; Rohlfing-Bastian, Anna - 2014
periodic fixed and variable operating costs. The resulting cost figure exceeds the full cost of a product, as commonly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234531
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Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act dependent care provision on military participation among young adults
Chatterji, Pinka; Liu, Xiangshi; Yörük, Barış K. - 2018
In this study, we test whether the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach, comparing the outcomes of young adults targeted by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903911
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Spatial concentration of military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977 - 2007)
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354777
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Security gradient and national defense : the optimal choice between a draft army and a professional army
Kanniainen, Vesa; Ringbom, Staffan - 2014
The earlier work on the optimal design of the national security has focused on the opportunity cost of the draft in terms of foregone human capital formation. The current paper introduces the national security into the welfare analysis missing from the earlier work. This creates a trade-off...
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