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Regulation - the Corridor to Liberalization : The Experience of the Israeli Phone Market 1984-2005
Gronau, Reuben - 2006
newly established regulator faces a government owned, or a newly privatized, company. It definitely does not apply to the … case of the Israeli communication industry where the government serves as regulator and at the same time is the owner of …
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
behavior more visible to the community the Principal can amplify reputational payoffs, thereby reducing free-riding at low cost …
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Central Bank Communication with the General Public : Promise or False Hope?
Blinder, Alan S.; Ehrmann, Michael; Haan, Jakob de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Central banks are increasingly reaching out to the general public to motivate and explain their monetary policy actions. One major aim of this outreach is to guide inflation expectations; another is to ensure accountability and create trust. This article surveys a rapidly-growing literature on...
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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters
Helliwell, John F. - 2018
, and in the community. While earlier studies have found important age patterns (often U-shaped) and social context effects … couples, and for those who have lived for longer in their communities. A strong sense of community belonging is associated …
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Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia
Helliwell, John F. - 1996
The paper reviews the growth performance of different groups of Asian economies, confirms the role of openness as a key factor explaining the growth differences among the Asian economies, and undertakes a preliminary investigation of the role of social capital and institutions. The role of...
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Building Nations Through Shared Experiences : Evidence from African Football
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2018
We examine whether shared collective experiences can help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub- Saharan Africa. Combining individual survey data with information on official matches played between 2000 and 2015, we find that individuals...
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How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities
Helliwell, John F. - 2018
This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400 …,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly …. The data presented here are useful on their own to study community-level variation, and can also be used to provide …
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Saving for a (not so) Rainy Day : A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali
Beaman, Lori - 2014
High transaction and contracting costs are often thought to create credit and savings market failures in developing countries. The microfinance movement grew largely out of business process innovations and subsidies that reduced these costs. We examine an alternative approach, one that infuses...
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