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Meng, Xin - 2010

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …

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Do Disaster Experience and Knowledge Affect Insurance Take-Up Decisions?

Cai, Jing - 2016

on take-up than does the disaster experience …

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Learning the Wealth of Nations

Buera, Francisco J. - 2009

We study the evolution of market-oriented policies over time and across countries. We consider a model in which own and neighbors' past experiences influence policy choices, through their effect on policymakers' beliefs. We estimate the model using a large panel of countries. We find that there...

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Macroeconomic Adjustment and Foreign Trade of Centrally Planned Economies

Burkett, John; Portes, Richard; Winter, David - 2022

This empirical study stresses the underlying macroeconomic forces which determine foreign trade flows in CPEs. The general specification includes a planners' demand equation for the volume of imports, a planners' supply equation for the volume of exports, and a rest-of-world demand equation for...

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The Theory and Measurement of Macroeconomic Disequilibrium in Centrally Planned Economies

Portes, Richard - 2021

The paper considers issues in recent research on macroeconomic equilibrium in centrally planned economies. I defend the explicit aggregative , macroeconomic approach in theory, institutional relationships and measurement. It has offered a fresh, coherent framework for analysis of many CPE...

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The Economics of Price Scissors

Sah, Raaj Kumar; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021

We analyze consequences of changing the terms of trade between agriculture and industry on capital accumulation and on welfare of workers in different sectors. The issue was central to Soviet industrialization debate and it remains important in today's developing world. Through a simple general...

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Planning and Market Structure

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2021

This paper examines a model in which demand is uncertain and production must occur before demand is known for sure. By investing resources in information gathering activity, demand can be forecast. The paper investigates the relationship between the incentive to plan and market structure and...

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Macroeconomic Planning and Disequilibrium : Estimates for Poland, 1955-1980

Portes, Richard; Quandt, Richard; Winter, David; Yeo, … - 2021

This paper specifies and estimates a four-equation disequilibrium model of the consumption goods market in a centrally planned economy(CPE).The data are from Poland for the period 1955-1980, but the analysis is more general and will be applied to other CPEs as soon as the appropriate data sets...

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National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief : Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012

, and indicated whether they favored governmental disaster relief. For all hazards, including auto accident risks, most …-fifths of our respondents favor government relief for disaster victims, but only one-third do for victims in high-risk areas …

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Reflections on U.S. Disaster Insurance Policy for the 21st Century

Kunreuther, Howard - 2012

which a disaster insurance program should be based. Section 3 then focuses on the second question by analyzing the …. Section 4 turns to the third question and delineates the opportunities and challenges of a comprehensive disaster insurance … program. Section 5 poses a set of open issues that are currently being addressed by a research project on disaster insurance …

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