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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471205
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641390
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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458074
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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342436
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The evolution of citizenship : economic and institutional determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor);  … - 2006
. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522985
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How do households adjust to trade liberalization? : evidence from China's WTO accession
Dai, Mi; Huang, Wei; Zhang, Yifan - 2018
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing larger tariff cuts experienced relative declines...
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From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes : theory and evidence
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor);  … - 2008
In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small minority of voters favour more open migration policies. Next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719626
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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa : implication for development policies
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor);  … - 2008
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...
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Student loans repayment and recovery : international comparisons
Shen, Hua (contributor); Ziderman, Adrian (contributor) - 2008
Student loans schemes are in operation in more than seventy countries around the world. Most loans schemes benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003731575
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Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the easterlin paradox
Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008
The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
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