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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?

Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171

In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population … strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban migrants. The importance of these expectations for life satisfaction is … particularly pronounced in the urban areas, though also highly significant for the rural area. If expectations were to reverse from …

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The political economy of coal in Poland: Drivers and barriers for a shift away from fossil fuels

Brauers, Hanna; Oei, Pao-Yu - In: Energy Policy 144 (2020)

Poland is the largest hard coal and second largest lignite producer in the EU, generating around 80 percent of its electricity from coal. Resistance to a reduction in coal production and consumption comes from various actors, namely, coal corporations, unions, parts of civil society and the...

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Interest-group size and legislative lobbying

Schneider, Maik T. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 29-41

We develop a model of legislative decision making in which lobbying and public policy are jointly determined. We examine how policy outcomes depend on the sizes of the interest groups. While a larger size typically involves favorable effects on policy, we also identify threshold levels of...

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Value and Crisis Theory in the 'Great Recession'

Desai, Radhika; Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This is a prepublication version of an article which appeared in the World Review of Political Economy. Please cite as Desai, R. and A. Freeman. 2001. ‘Value and Crisis Theory in the “Great Recession”’. World Review of Political Economy. Vol 2 No. 1, Spring 2011. Pp 35-47. This article...

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Political Economy of Electricity Subsidy: Evidence from Punjab

Jain, Varinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The electricity subsidy distribution pattern needs to be scrutinised to assess whether the policy benefits small producers, a normative argument often made while granting any input subsidy. In Punjab, this policy is found to ignore equity considerations while granting non-discriminatory...

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The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of June 2010

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Economic policy depends not only on national elections but also on coalition bargaining strategies. In coalition government, minority parties bargain on policy and form a majority coalition, and select a Prime Minister from their mids. In Holland the latter is done conventionally with Plurality,...

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Single vote multiple seats elections. Didactics of district versus proportional representation, using the examples of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

No new issues are discussed but we try to improve on the didactics of some well-known elementary features of multiple seats elections that rely on a single vote such as common elections for Parliament or the U.S. Congress. The didactics concentrate on proportionality versus districts. Since some...

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A tale of an unwanted outcome: Transfers and local endowments of trust and cooperation

Accetturo, Antonio; de Blasio, Guido; Ricci, Lorenzo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 102 (2014) C, pp. 74-89

Transfers can do good; however, they can also result in massive failures. This paper presents a model that highlights the ambiguous nature of the impact of transfers on local endowments of social capital. It then describes an empirical investigation that illustrates that the receipt of EU...

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If diversification is good, why don't countries diversify more? The political economy of diversification in resource-rich countries

Wiig, Arne; Kolstad, Ivar - In: Energy Policy 40 (2012) C, pp. 196-203

For resource-rich countries, diversification is claimed to represent a strategy for reducing resource curse problems. This, however, depends on whether diversification has a positive effect on the country's institutions. While there is a lot of evidence that exports of oil have a negative impact...

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Constitutions and crisis

Coyne, Christopher J. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 2, pp. 351-357

A crisis is an unexpected event that creates uncertainty and poses a direct or perceived threat to the goals and norms of an organization or society. While crises are ubiquitous, how societies respond to crises, and the way crises affect societies, is largely a matter of constitutional political...

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