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Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
Hoff, Karla - 2017
Behavioral economics recognizes that mental models -- intuitive sets of ideas about how things work -- can bias an …
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The State of Economics, the State of the World
Basu, Kaushik - 2017
the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … special attention to the rise of development economics. Given the challenges faced by the global economy in recent times, and … especially since 2008, it is time for a serious evaluation of economics for policy making. The paper comments on some potential …
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The Pulse of Public Opinion : Using Twitter Data to Analyze Public Perception of Reform in El Salvador
Seabold, Skipper - 2017
This study uses Twitter data to provide a more nuanced understanding of the public reaction to the 2011 reform to the propane gas subsidy in El Salvador. By soliciting a small sample of manually tagged tweets, the study identifies the subject matter and sentiment of all tweets during six...
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Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success?
Laborde, David - 2017
This paper views tariff-cutting formulas as a potential solution to the free-rider problem that arises when market opening is negotiated bilaterally and extended on a most-favored-nation basis. The negotiators in the Doha Agenda chose formulas that are ideal from an economic efficiency viewpoint...
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Strengthening Public Financial Management : Exploring Drivers and Effects
Fritz, Verena - 2017
This paper explores two relationships, first between country characteristics and the quality of public financial management (' drivers'), and second between the quality of public financial management systems and expected outcomes (' effects'). On the influence of country characteristics, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972527
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Political Economy Aspects of Fuel Subsidies : A Conceptual Framework
Strand, Jon - 2017
While notoriously inefficient, fuel subsidies are widespread, and in many cases politically stable. This paper discusses and models various political economy aspects of fuel subsidies, focusing on gasoline and kerosene. Both economic and political are considered to explain differences in...
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The Impact of Economics Blogs
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
There is a proliferation of economics blogs, with increasing numbers of economists attracting large numbers of readers … views and downloads of economics papers. Second, blogging raises the profile of the blogger (and his or her institution) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975792
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The New Political Economy : Positive Economics and Negative Politics
Andriamananjara, Soamiely - 2017
This paper discusses the theory that less politics makes better economics. It argues that this perspective on politics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746954
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Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas
Gallego, Francisco A. - 2010
Levels of economic development vary widely within countries in the Americas. This paper argues that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era. Colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country, depending on local conditions. Some activities were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135470
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district...
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