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The paper discusses the European Union as a union of primarily small European states, a union whose parallel emphasis on efficiency and fairness, including deep respect for human rights, holds the key to Europe's economic and social advances over the years. The paper shows that adjusting...
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The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...
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We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA …
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Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
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We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan … affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …
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We study the effects of federal purchases on firm investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal … firms’ capital investment by 10 to 13 cents. In line with the financial accelerator model, our findings indicate that the …-level analysis suggests that that the increase in investment at the firm level translates into an industry-wide effect without …
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We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
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as a response to previous physical capital investment with an ultimate goal of inducing higher rates. Theoretical models …) and gross investment (INV) in physical capital. The evidence accruing from a dynamic panel data estimation indicates an … with the notion that the size of the firmś investment project can impose a restriction on the amount of new debt. The …
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intensive industries, such as cement, by increasing the relative cost of domestic production. -- capacity investment ; demand …
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