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The effect of information on voting behaviour
Nordin, Mattias - 2009
This paper investigates how information affect voting behaviour. There exist a large literature suggesting that … voters can not make up for their lack of information using shortcuts. Furthermore, the errors uninformed voters make do not … techniques. -- Voting behavior ; Citizen candidates ; Information ; Cues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879443
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The Effect of Private Political Information on Macroeconomic Forecast Accuracy
Imperatore, Claudia - 2020
Although macroeconomic forecasts are a relevant source of information for financial markets, the determinants of their … accuracy are still unclear. We examine whether macro forecasting houses' access to private political information is a … determinant of macroeconomic forecast accuracy. In particular, we focus on the private political information that macro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823382
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Unawareness and selective disclosure : the effect of school quality information on property prices
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Hasan, Syed; Jha, Nikhil; … - 2017
The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference …-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effect of the release of information about high-quality and low-quality schools relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589131
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Unawareness and selective disclosure : the effect of school quality information on property prices
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Hasan, Syed; Jha, Nikhil; … - 2016
The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference …-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effect of the release of information about high-quality and low-quality schools relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595222
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061931
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Innovation and education : is there a "nerd effect"?
Goldbach, Stefan - 2012
This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation. To analyze this question, the KfW/ZEW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487852
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Teaching or research? : what affects the efficiency of universities
Lehmann, Erik; Warning, Susanne - 2002
We examine differences in the efficiency of UK universities in providing research and teaching. It appears that (i) universities are more efficient in providing teaching than research, (ii) the variation of efficiency is larger in research than in teaching, and (iii) the degree of (in)efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009491062
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Not guilty? : another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503705
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Ramadan Effect on UAE Stock Market - Banks Sector
Alatiyat, Musab - 2014
This was the first paper to study exclusively the effects of Ramadan on the United Arab Emirates Stock market. In doing so, the study aims to establish such impacts with the intention of advising the investors on whether it would be profitable to invest during the holy month of Ramadan or no.The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052608
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An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Poor Academic Performance
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2014
The study empirically examines the causes of poor academic performance of the students in the native area, Ward 6, enrolled at Gokomere High School, Matova Secondary School, St Stanslous Secondary School and Chidzikwe Secondary School using Ordinary Least Squares approach for a sample of 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044034