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Government decentralization and international government performance

Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Nelson, Michael A.; … - 2016

Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to study the relative influences of different types of...

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Structural transformation, marketization, and household production around the world

Bridgman, Benjamin; Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015 - This version: October 5, 2015

We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...

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Do large cabinets favor large governments? : evidence from Swiss sub-federal jurisdictions

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Feld, Lars P. - 2004

interact with fragmentation in determining government size. The empirical study of the role of fragmented governments for …

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Private bank deposits and macro/fiscal risk in the euroarea

Arghyrou, Michael Georgiou; Gadea, María Dolores - 2019

tested hypotheses. They also reveal persistent fragmentation between EMU core and periphery banking systems caused by a … deficit of trust in periphery banking systems, unmitigated by the introduction of OMT and European Banking Union. Our findings …

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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a zero-price rule is enforced. By contrast, in the Unregulated Regime, ISPs make … strategically set termination fees to induce fragmentation. This takes place when advertising revenues are potentially large but …

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The structure of multinational firms' international activities

Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2020

The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...

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Divided they fall : fragmented parliaments and government stability

Carozzi, Felipe; Cipullo, Davide; Repetto, Luca - 2020

This paper studies how political fragmentation affects government stability. We show that each additional party with … fragmentation in parliaments worldwide may have a substantial impact on stability and political selection. …

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Urban specialisation : from sectoral to functional

Antoine, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony - 2021

The comparative advantage of many cities is based on their efficiency in the production of "functions", e.g., business services such as finance, law, engineering, or similar functions that are used by firms in a wide range of sectors. Firms that use these functions may choose to source them...

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Import competition and U.S. sentiment toward China

Arezki, Rabah; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Hieu - 2024

We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to...

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Intercity impacts of workfrom-home with both remote and non-remote workers

Brueckner, Jan K.; Sayantani, S. - 2022

This paper summarizes the results from generalizing the simple two-city WFH model of Brueck-ner, Kahn and Lin (2021) through the addition of a group of non-remote workers, who must live in the city where they work. The results show that the main qualitative conclusions of BKL regarding the...

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