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Global Energy Outlook 2015

Newell, Richard G. - 2016

This paper assesses trends in the global energy sector through 2040 by harmonizing multiple projections issued by private, government, and inter-governmental organizations based on methods from "Global Energy Outlooks Comparison: Methods and Challenges" (Newell and Qian 2015). These projections...

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Trade Credit Contracts

Klapper, Leora F. - 2011

We employ a novel dataset on almost 30,000 trade credit contracts to describe the broad characteristics of the parties that contract together, the key contractual terms such as the discount for early payment and the days by when payment is due. Whereas prior work has typically used information...

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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

Tella, Rafael Di - 2007

corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …

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State Versus Private Ownership

Shleifer, Andrei - 1998

costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …

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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism

Shleifer, Andrei - 1991

We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …

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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics

Morrow, John - 2013

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...

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Financial Crisis in a Socialist Setting : Impact on Political Behavior, Social Trust, and Economic Values

Abramitzky, Ran; Ben-Porath, Netanel; Lavy, Victor; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Research on the political and social impacts of financial crises has focused chiefly on free market economies, hindering our understanding of their effects in other settings. We exploit an episode of a financial crisis that hit the Israeli kibbutzim to study its impact in a socialist context....

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Financial crisis in a socialist setting : impact on political behavior, social trust, and economic values

Abramitzky, Ran; Ben-Porath, Netanel; Lavy, Victor; … - 2023

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Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market Mechanisms

Landier, Augustin; Thesmar, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the drivers of support for market mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social objective. We...

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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...

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