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This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...
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This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
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but also for the broader world economy as the cooperative or conflicted nature of this relationship will set the tone for …
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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
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individuals. In Cologne, Germany, the Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik facilitated my summer research agenda, with special …
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Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … repeated minimum effort coordination game. While most groups first experience inefficient coordination, the efficiency … efficiency. This suggests that decentralized monetary sanctions can play a major role as a coordination device in Pareto …
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direct and indirect connections. In addition to forming (costly) links, agents choose actions for a coordination game that … determines the level of decay of each link. We address the issues of coordination (long-run equilibrium selection) and network …
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