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Efficiency invites divide and coercion in the age of increasing returns to scale

Xu, Yongsheng; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2019

In the presence of (at least locally) increasing returns to scale tech- nologies, the paper asks the question: does there exist an economic system which implements Pareto efficient allocations and respects the voluntary participation principle? To answer this question, the paper formulates an...

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Historical Communist Party Strength and Modern Party Loyalty. A Replication Study of Barceló (PNAS, 2021)

Malesky, Edmund J.; Nguyen, Trung-Anh - In: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) 3 (2024) 2024-5, pp. 1-27

Does exposure to violence create more politically engaged citizens? In a PNAS paper, Barceló (2021) asks this provocative question and proposes an intricate and original socio-psychological theory to answer it. Barceló also employs a research design that seeks to account for reverse causality...

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Omitted Variable Bias and Wartime Legacies. A Reply to Malesky and Nguyen (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2024)

Barceló, Joan - In: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) 3 (2024) 2024-7, pp. 1-39

Malesky and Nguyen (2024, Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, MN) reassess a study on the effects of wartime violence on civic engagement in Vietnam, attributing discrepancies in previous findings to coding and historical errors. They argue that prewar party strength, rather than...

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The rise of money and class society: The contributions of John F. Henry

Semenova, Alla; Wray, L. Randall - 2015

This paper explores the rise of money and class society in ancient Greece, drawing historical and theoretical parallels to the case of ancient Egypt. In doing so, the paper examines the historical applicability of the chartalist and metallist theories of money. It will be shown that the origins...

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China in between varieties of capitalism and communism

Csanadi, Maria - 2016

This paper is challenging mainstream views about the contemporary Chinese system as a developmental state and a variety of capitalism. Based on a comparative analytical model (Csanádi, 1997, 2006) I will demonstrate that in China the general features of a communist system prevail to date, and...

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Vom Camarade zum Monsieur: Strukturanpassung und Demokratisierung in Benin

Kohnert, Dirk; Preuss, Hans-Joachim - In: Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in … 12 (1992) 46, pp. 47-70

From "Comrade" to "Monsieur": Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Benin: The process of political and economic liberalization in Benin is regarded as a model for the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. Benin made history by becoming the first African country to overthrow a military dictator by...

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Development of capabilities from the innovation of the perspective of poverty and disability

Sánchez García, José Luis; Pérez Ruiz, Sergio - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 2 (2017) 2, pp. 74-86

Poverty is a reality that is present to a greater or lesser extent in all regions of the world. Disability, like … poverty, is also a reality in the society in which we live. Disability is not only a reality, but an inescapable truth, as at … some point in life all people will be vulnerable and will exhibit some form of disability. When combined, poverty and …

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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...

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30 years of economic transformation in CEE: Key five lessons for Belarus

Naūrodski, Sierž; Alachnovič, Aleś; Styczyńska, Izabela - 2020

Belarusian economy has been stagnating in 2011-2015 after 15 years of a high annual average growth rate. In 2015, after four years of stagnation, the Belarusian economy slid into a recession, its first since 1996, and experienced both cyclical and structural recessions. Since 2015, the...

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Health shocks and risk aversion: Panel and experimental evidence from Vietnam

Priebe, Jan; Rink, Ute; Stemmler, Henry - 2019

This paper looks at individual risk behavior and disability in Vietnam, where many households live with a disabled … family member. Due to the Vietnam war, disability is a common phenomenon and shapes individuals' daily life and decision …

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