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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist …
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Seemingly irrelevant events affect economic perceptions and expectations : the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
"Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct...
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898121
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The Right Amount of Trust
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2009
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Our interpretation is that highly trusting individuals tend to assume too much social risk and to be cheated...
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Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2008
We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769529
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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018
This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
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Money for nothing? : Ukrainian immigrants in Poland and their remitting behaviors
Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
staying in Poland, to identify the main motives to remit and thus to understand mechanisms governing this process. The article …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196422
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Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … Countries (EAPs). The vast majority of all types of immigrants from these countries actually originate in Ukraine. On the other …
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Burden or relief? : fiscal impacts of recent Ukrainian migration to Poland
Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2015
) assessing empirically net fiscal position of Ukrainian immigrants in Poland. On the theoretical level we show that there exists … analysis presented. Net fiscal position of Ukrainian immigrants in Poland is unequivocally positive (and more beneficial than …
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The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
La Porta, Rafael - 2010
In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize this evidence and attempt a unified...
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