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Studies on Issues in Political Economy since the Global Financial Crisis

Jäger, Kai - 2016

The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...

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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

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The political economy of emission tax design in environmental policy

Glachant, Matthieu - 2002

In actual environmental policy, the design of actual pollution emission taxes differs significantly with the optimal Pigovian tax. In particular, earmarking prevails and actual taxes are usually combined with regulation. Furthermore tax rates are generally too low to significantly influence...

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The Political Economy of a Publicly Provided Private Good with Adverse Selection

Delipalla, Sophia; O'Donnell, Owen - 1999

Given heterogeneity in incomes and health risks, with asymmetric information in the latter, preferences over the public-private mix in health insurance and care are derived. Results concerning crowding-out in the presence of adverse selection are established. For low-risk individuals,...

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Modern political economy: A brief history and some applications

Jakee, Keith - 2021

This article - designed to give readers unfamiliar with public choice a historical overview and flavor for the kinds of problems considered - is divided into three main sections, "historical origins," the "modern founders of MPE," and a brief description of some "current issues" studied by...

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Growth, poverty and asset allocation: The role of the state

López, Ramón - 2001

This paper studies the consequences of certain widespread policies for the quality and sustainability of growth. These policies cause economic inefficiency, environmental destruction and increased poverty. The paper develops a political economy model to show why the existence of such policies is...

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Politik und Emotionen: Emotionale Politikgrundlagen und Politiken indirekter Emotionssteuerung

Wohlgemuth, Michael - 2005

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Die Psychologie irrationaler Wirtschaftspolitik am Beispiel des Reformstaus

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000

Wirtschaftspolitik gefunden haben, wo ja nicht einmal das Korrektiv der Märkte zur Rationalität zwingt. Der Wähler hat kaum Anreize zu … Einfluss auf die Qualität der Wirtschaftspolitik hat. In der politökonomischen Analyse hat dies Kalkül unter dem Terminus der …

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On the scientific status of economic policy: A tale of alternative paradigms

Fagiolo, Giorgio; Roventini, Andrea - 2008

-based computational economics (ACE) - and we present the way it has been applied to policy analysis issues. We conclude by discussing the …

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Efficiency-wage hypothesis and the operational production pattern

Naqvi, Nadeem; Schürg, Carolin V. - 2011

An economy's production set is the collection of all net output vectors that the economy is capable of producing with a given technology and fixed quantities of primary factors of production. The boundary of this set is called the production possibility frontier or PPF. We show that, if the...

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