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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

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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Solving Shortage in a Priceless Market : Insights from Blood Donation

Sun, Tianshu - 2015

Shortage is common in many markets, such as those for human organs or blood, but the problem is often difficult to solve through price adjustment, given safety and ethical concerns. In this paper, we investigate whether market designers can use non-price methods to address shortage....

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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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Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States

Acemoglu, Daron - 2005

regulate the economy and to withstand the political and social challenges from non-state actors. I construct a model in which … the state apparatus is controlled by a self-interested ruler, who tries to divert resources for his own consumption, but … who can also invest in socially productive public goods. Both weak and strong states create distortions. When the state is …

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Government Gains from Self-Restraint : A Bargaining Theory of Inefficient Redistribution

Drazen, Allan - 2004

We present a bargaining model of the interaction between a government and interest groups in which, unlike most existing models, neither side is assumed to have all the bargaining power. The government finds it optimal to constrain itself in the use of transfer policies to improve its bargaining...

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State Capacity and American Technology : Evidence from the 19th Century

Acemoglu, Daron; Moscona, Jacob; Robinson, James Alan - 2016

conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of one key set of institutions, the capacity of the US state as proxied by … the way in which the US created an immensely capable and effective state …

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Like Me, Buy Me : The Effect of Soft Power on Exports

Rose, Andrew K. - 2015

In this paper I quantify a gain that a country receives when its global influence is considered to be admirable by others. I use a standard gravity model of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2013, and an annual survey conducted for the BBC by GlobeScan which asks people in up...

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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State

Levine, David K. - 2013

inefficiently high taxes, high compensation for state officials, and low welfare …

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Why Are Saving Rates so High in China?

Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011

In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...

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