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Resolving Conflicts between Competition and Other Values : The Roles of Courts and Other Institutions in the U.S. and the E.U
Ginsburg, Douglas H. - 2018
In this essay we compare and contrast the methods used by courts and other institutions in the United States and in the European Union to resolve the conflicts that inevitably arise between competition law and other laws, policies, and values. In the U.S., because its generally-worded antitrust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938131
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Islamism and U.S. Foreign Policy : The Gulf between Two Agendas
Karoui, Hichem - 2006
In early 2004, the Presidential study group, - a bipartisan commission of statesmen, diplomats, legislators, scholars, and experts - was conveyed to examine the state of the Middle East and the effectiveness of U.S. policy in advancing U.S. interests in that region. According to the report it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054853
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Labor market matching under imperfect information
Willems, Tim - 2011
Recent research has shown that the standard labor matching model hasdifficulties in reproducing the co-movement patterns observed in US data. Thisis due to the fact that the standard model lacks sufficient propagation of shocks.This paper shows that refining the informational structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382000
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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries: a simple analytical framework
Mejía, Daniel - 2008
This paper develops a model of the war against illegal drugs in both producer and consumer countries. The paper studies the trade-off faced by the government of the drug consumer country between prevention policies (aimed at reducing the demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264484
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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban
Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011
Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the United States to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286855
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Diasporas and conflict
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016
We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor … involved in the conflict by transferring financial resources to its origin country. We find that the diaspora influences the … conflict equilibrium, the two groups of residents prefer to negotiate a peaceful settlement if there exists a sharing rule that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544003
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Second-best fairness : the trade-off between false positives and false negatives
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Cappelen, Cornelius; Tungodden, … - In: American economic review 113 (2023) 9, pp. 2458-2485
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Income variance dynamics and heterogeneity
Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2001
Recent theoretical work has shown the importance of measuring microeconomic uncertainty for models of both general and partial equilibrium under imperfect insurance. In this paper the assumption of i.i.d. income innovations used in previous empirical studies is removed and the focus of the...
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Financial literacy and retirement preparedness: Evidence and implications for financial education programs
Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2007
Economists are beginning to investigate the causes and consequences of financial illiteracy to better understand why retirement planning is lacking and why so many households arrive close to retirement with little or no wealth. Our review reveals that many households are unfamiliar with even the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298364
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Labor Market Matching under Imperfect Information
Willems, Tim - 2010
Recent research has shown that the standard labor matching model hasdifficulties in reproducing the co-movement patterns observed in US data. Thisis due to the fact that the standard model lacks sufficient propagation of shocks.This paper shows that refining the informational structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325771