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Human capital and growth : the cost of rent seeking activities
Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A.; … - In: The determinants of economic growth, (pp. 209-229). 2000
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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany : the impact on productivity and wages
Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001
This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...
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The political economy of corruption : a Philippine illustration
Roumasset, James Alan (contributor) - 2008
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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor);  … - 2005
government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …
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The Fed and the question of financial stability
Grunspan, Thierry - 2005
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The efficiency cost of market power in the banking industry : a test of the "quiet life" and related hypotheses
Berger, Allen N. - In: The review of economics and statistics 80 (1998) 3, pp. 454-465
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How does corruption in Central and Eastern Europe hurt economic growth? : Granger test of causality
Grochová, Ladislava; Otáhal, Tomáš - In: Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú … 61 (2013) 6, pp. 563-577
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On the determinants of labour market institutions : rent-sharing vs. social insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000 - Third draft November 1, 2000
countries to make their labour markets more flexible. While these phenomena may increase the efficiency costs of existing …
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The nonlinear relationship between entrepreneurship and natural resource rents
Nguyen Phuc Canh; Kim, Sangho; Thanh Dinh Su - In: Journal of entrepreneurship 31 (2022) 3, pp. 632-662
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The social costs of gun ownership : spurious regression and unfounded public policy advocacy
Westphal, Christian - 2013 - This version: July 8, 2013
In 2006, a study, published in the Journal of Public Economics, employing a panel regression of 200 U.S. counties across 20 years, found a significant elasticity of homicides with respect to firearms ownership. Based on this finding the authors made the public policy recommendation of taxing gun...
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