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Lobbying and bribes : a survey-based analysis of the demand for influence and corruption
Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2011
We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political influence, their perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption/bribes are uncorrelated at the firm level; (b) firms that...
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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data
Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021
. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of national teams of European countries that have participated in the … European and the World Championships since 1970. Determining the genetic diversity of national teams is based on the distance …
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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth
Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013
types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009785998
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Closer look at revealed comparative advantage : gross-versus value added trade flows
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - This version: April 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
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Where is the value added? : trade liberalization and production networks
Aichele, Rahel; Heiland, Inga - 2016
, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … and for about 7% of the decline in this figure on the world level as observed between 2000 and 2007. Furthermore, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517926
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Going deep : the trade and welfare effects of TTIP
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga - 2014
rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …
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GVCs and the endogenous geography of RTAs
Fontagné, Lionel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018
Geography, economic size, or common history, help predicting signed regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, not all signed RTAs are "natural" according to economic determinants. En-dogeneity and general equilibrium effects of RTAS are the two mechanisms addressed in this paper. We estimate...
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How much violence does football hooliganism cause?
Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2021
This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … universe of professional football matches played out in Germany's top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. To … violent crimes on days with and without professional football matches while controlling for date heterogeneity, weather, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669790
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The economics of political borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
as democratic outcomes, borders in a world of rent-seeking Leviathans, and borders as outcomes of conflict and wars …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570592
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Media capture in a democracy : the role of wealth concentration
Corneo, Giacomo (contributor) - 2005
Since objective news coverage is vital to democracy, captured media can seriously distort collective decisions. The current paper develops a voting model where citizens are uncertain about the welfare effects induced by alternative policy options and derive information about those effects from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002578084