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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012

When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...

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Anatomy of policy complementarities

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...

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Risk, institutions and growth : why England and not China?

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We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct...

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The vanishing bequest tax : the comparative evolution of bequest taxation in historical perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor) - 2007

gradual reduction due to declining wealth inequality. A number of extensions to the basic model allow to match our theory with …

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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's

Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …

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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

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Self-selection and earnings during volatile transition

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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries

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