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Spatial Diffusion of Economic Shocks in Networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani - 2018
The aggregate economic impact of any developmental project depends on its effects within the chosen administrative region as well as its economic spillovers into other regions. However, little is known about how these spillovers propagate through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921514
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Spatial diffusion of economic shocks in networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
The aggregate economic impact of any developmental project depends on its effects within the chosen administrative region as well as its economic spillovers into other regions. However, little is known about how these spillovers propagate through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825329
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Spatial Diffusion of Economic Shocks in Networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani - 2018
The aggregate economic impact of any developmental project depends on its effects within the chosen administrative region as well as its economic spillovers into other regions. However, little is known about how these spillovers propagate through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916562
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The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Islam, Asad - 2019
We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others about the quality of a new technology and on their risk attitudes. We test the predictions of this model using a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861281
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The Idea of a Rural Informal Economy
Conroy, John D. - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of economic informality and its application in the rural context of developing and transitional economies, applying Keith Hart's (1987) notion of informality as a 'remedial concept'. Some remedy is needed to make sense of the many 'palpable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078973
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A Whole-Farm Model Based on Experimental Flocks and Crop Rotations in Northwest Syria
Nordblom, Thomas L.; Thomson, Euan - 2013
This document describes a whole-farm model based on data from farm scale crop, sheep and native pasture experiments managed by scientists. The data are integrated using linear programming (LP), and tests of the economic viability of intensified production systems are presented. A six year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165611
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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015
Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470405
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Image versus information : changing societal norms and optimal privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb; Bénabou, Roland - 2016
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476544
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Culture and Risk-Sharing Networks
Laban Peryman, Jo - 2017
I investigate how students from different cultures form risk-sharing networks when they come to study at university, and how these network structures affect risk attitudes in different contexts. Using an online survey, I find that students from collectivist cultures such as China form larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963769
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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics
Gershman, Boris - 2016
This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983798