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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of geography on the transition process in authoritarian political regimes, and to investigate the nature of the links between political change, economic reforms and geographic location. A simple model of transition and democratization is...
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This paper studies fictitious play in networks of noncooperative two-player games. We show that continuous-time fictitious play converges to Nash equilibrium provided that the overall game is zero-sum. Moreover, the rate of convergence is 1/T , regardless of the size of the network. In contrast,...
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This paper studies fictitious play in networks of noncooperative two-person games. We show that continuous-time fictitious play converges to the set of Nash equilibria if the overall n-person game is zero-sum. Moreover, the rate of convergence is 1/T, regardless of the size of the network. In...
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Contest success functions, which show how probabilities of winning depend on resources devoted to a conflict, have been widely used in the literature addressing appropriative activities (economics), international and civil wars (political science), and group conflict and selection (evolutionary...
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in services affects the volume of goods trade. Additionally, because of interaction between tariffs and competition, the … agreements leading to crossborder services liberalization may boost goods trade as well, they may also lead to a fall in goods …
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model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable … hypotheses about the roles of different modes of services supply as complements or substitutes. We further link our estimates to … and financial services as showing the largest potential for cross-border trade when market regulations are reduced and …
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Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...
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In this paper we analyse the interplay between services and manufacturing. This is done through identifying and … interplay between manufacturing exports and services. Our results show that a 1% increase in exports increases the volume of …
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exports of information technology/information technology-enabled services (IT/ITeS), India is uniquely placed to become a …, services like healthcare, retail and education are online and there has been a change in data regulations in several countries … services). It analyses how the discussions on data localisation evolved in the G20 and identifies commonalities and differences …
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In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies …. The results suggest that firms avoid corrupt countries and that corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In …
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