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Trump digs votes : the effect of Trump's coal campaign on the presidential ballot in 2016
Di Giacomo, Marina; Nagl, Wolfgang; Steinbrunner, Philipp - 2022
In this paper we investigate the effect of Donald Trump's campaign for coal in his successful race for the White House … in 2016. Using a spatial Durbin model we estimate the effect of coal production on the Republicans vote share in the US … between Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 as the dependent variable. The positive effect of coal production on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266083
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Income inequality and oligarchs in Russian regions : a note
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Gundacker, Lidwina - 2017
We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path towards market economy, among other factors, gave rise to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646801
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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2019
This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE profitability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026451
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Trade and industrial policy of transition economies
Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001
Trade reforms in transition economies are analyzed in a model of trade and vertical product differentiation. We first … show that trade liberalization in transition economies reduces the local firm s output and raises the prices of all … price competition (but not on social welfare). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398110
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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy
Mergele, Lukas; Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz - 2020
The end of communism in the 1990s probably is the most fundamental restructuring of institutions witnessed in recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287328
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Globalization and state capitalism : assessing Vietnam's accession to the WTO
Baccini, Leonardo; Impullitti, Giammario; Malesky, Edmund - 2017
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015
Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
transition. Specifically, an "oil invasion" in the early 1960s turned regional coal abundance from a blessing into a curse. Human … analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of … European NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. We show that the reversal of fortune of coal regions resulted from the second energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442780
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International labour market regulation and economic growth with creative destruction
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2002
level of welfare. When the interest-rate elasticity of consumption in the world is low (high), the simultaneous regulation … (deregulation) of the labour market in all countries increases welfare. …
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Wage policy and endogenous wage rigidity : a representative view from the inside
Agell, Jonas; Bennmarker, Helge - 2002
We report the results from a representative survey of human resource managers in 885 Swedish firms. We estimate that during the severe recession of the 1990s, only 1.1 percent of workers took a cut in regular nominal pay. We trace the lack of wage moderation to a combination of exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410449
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Market competition and efficient cooperation
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno - 2016
We use laboratory experiments to study the causal effects of favorable and unfavorable competitive market experience on cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral spillovers between different spheres of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414636