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Counter trade and international outsourcing : a relationship and network perspective
Fletcher, Richard - 2009
This paper looks at the reduction in the focus on countertrade in academic literature and the media and finds that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482011
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Empirical Essays on Development Economics in China
Meng, Lingsheng - 2010
My dissertation is composed of three essays on Development Economics in China. The first chapter, co-authored with Hongbin Li, evaluates the impact of the 8-7 Plan, the second wave of China's poverty alleviation program, on rural income growth at the county level over the period 1994-2000. Since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450807
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The Use of Targeting in Port State Control
Landry, Mary E. - 1995
international practice, and (2) the port State's use of targeting to focus its attention on substandard performance. It will also … outline and clarify the practice of targeting which has been employed under several regional port State control agreements … throughout the world. This study will examine targeting as an economic sanction; in essence, a coercive measure using financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455856
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Costly Voting: Theoretical and Experimental Results on Commons Dilemmas in Spatial Committee Games
Wilson, Rick K.; Herzberg, Roberta; Elliott, Mark - 1993
"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468404
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Essays on the Theory of Productive Government Activity and Economic Growth
Kühnel, Johanna - 2010
endogenously via a democratic voting process. The focus is on two public spending categories: productive government expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476199
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Endogenous Property Rights Regimes, Common Property Resources and Trade Policies
Galinato, Gregmar Ignacio - 2006
the use of their resource stock via a voting mechanism. Then, the impact of opening to trade is linked to the choice of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450725
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A political economy perspective on persistent inequality, inflation, and redistribution
Lahiri, Radhika; Ratnasiri, Shyama - 2010
In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective. We consider a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which agents vote over the desired inflation rate in each period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483530
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Women’s representation in politics : voter bias, party bias, and electoral systems
González Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos
Estudiamos cómo afecta el sistema electoral a la presencia de mujeres en política usando un modelo en el que tanto los votantes como los partidos pueden tener un sesgo de género. Aplicamos el modelo a las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que, según la ley, los municipios utilizan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012532196
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On Committee Decision Making: A Game Theoretical Approach
Shenoy, Prakash P. - 1980
people who have to pick one option from a given set of alternatives. A well defined voting rule is specified by which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430933
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing:Two-Part Tariffs
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institute for Economic Analysis - 2007
We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering … i pays to network j as a linear functionof the marginal costs and the retail prices set by both networks. In thecase of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435112