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Gun Control and the Self-Defense Argument
Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
A key issue in the debate over gun control is how it will affectthe relative incentives of criminals and law-abiding citizens to acquireguns. We propose a simple model of interaction of criminals and law-abiding citizens as a contest where the parties arm themselves in orderto improve their...
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Bad politicians
Caselli, Francesco; Morelli, Massimo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
We present a simple theory of the quality (competence and honesty) of elected officials. Our theoryoffers three main insights. Low-quality citizens have a ‘comparative advantage’ in pursuing electiveoffice, because their market wages are lower than those of high-quality citizens...
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Direct Democracy:Designing a Living Constitution
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> - 2006
A crucial aspect of constitutional design is the provision of rules onhow a constitution is to be amended. If procedures for constitutional amendmentare very restrictive, changes will take place outside the constitution. Thesechanges are likely to be against the citizens’ interests and their...
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Tätigkeitsbericht 2006
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Camera Surveillance as a Measure of Counterterrorism?
Stutzer, Alois; Zehnder, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2010
evidence on crime, weexpect camera surveillance to have a relatively smaller deterrent effect on terrorism than onother forms …
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The Influence of Taxes on Migration: Evidence from Switzerland
Liebig, Thomas; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen>
With decreasing migration costs and fiscal decentralisation on the policy agenda in variousOECD countries, the impact … of taxation on migration is of growing interest. Empirical studieson this topic have been limited due to a lack of …
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Unemployment, Technology and the Welfare Effects of Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - University <Mannheim> / Department of Economics - 2003
This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a hostcountry with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure....
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Renten und Zuwanderung - ein Überblick über neue Ergebnisse der Forschung
Krieger, Tim - Nordakademie <Elmshorn> - 2005
In der öffentlichen und politischen Debatte wird Zuwanderung als eine Möglichkeit diskutiert, das Problem der Alterung von Gesellschaften abzumildern. Gleichzeitig lassen sich zum Teil sehr starke Widerstände gegen Zuwanderung feststellen...
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Migration Correlation: Definition and Efficient Estimation
Gagliardini, Patrick; Gourieroux, Christian - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2004
The aim of this paper is to explain why cross-sectional estimated migration correlations displayed in the academic and … a model with stochastic migration in which the parameters of interest, that are migration correlations, are precisely … defined. The impossibility of estimating consistently the migration correlations from cross-sectional data only is emphasized …
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THE BAZAAR EFFECT, UNBUNDLING OFCOMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, AND MIGRATION
Kohler Wilhelm - CESifo GmbH <München> - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaareffect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a modelwhere Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments ofproduction, I compare a trading...
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