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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437910
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Reactivity in economic science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700543
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Have macroeconomic models lost their connection with economic reality?
Veen, Tom van - 2020
Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …
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What can economists learn from happiness research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001
happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income … some of the consequences for economic policy and for economic theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398921
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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
. First steps towards integrating awards into economic theory are undertaken. -- Awards ; non-monetary incentives ; economics …Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics …
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Optimal asset allocation with factor models for large portfolios
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper characterizes the asymptotic behaviour, as the number of assets gets arbitrarily large, of the portfolio weights for the class of tangency portfolios belonging to the Markowitz paradigm. It is assumed that the joint distribution of asset returns is characterized by a general factor...
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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630712
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Resource rents, power, and political stability
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014
We study the association between resource rents and political stability, highlighting the importance of the distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are likely to be positively associated with the stability of a...
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Political uncertainty, public expenditure and growth
Darby, Julia; Li, Chol-won; Muscatelli, V. Anton - 2000
We focus on the link between political instability due to uncertain electoral outcomes and economic growth, through the impact on a government's decisions on how to allocate government expenditure between public consumption and investment. Using an endogenous growth model with partisan electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781587
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Pampered bureaucracy, political stability, and trade integration
Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2017
This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country's institutions, which in turn inuences its economic efficiency. The environment we explore is one in which a country's lower classes may revolt and appropriate wealth owned by a ruling elite. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615513