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Learning Dynamics and the Support for Economic Reforms: Why Good News can be Bad
van Wijnbergen, Sweder; Willems, Tim - 2012
identity (reform winner or loser?) more pessimistic about their chances of benefiting from the reform. Consequently, learning … successfully but nevertheless lost public support, and vice versa. We show that learning dynamics can rationalize this apparent … paradox, the reason being that the process of revealing reform outcomes is an example of sampling without replacement: every …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326523
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An international comparison of voting by committees
Jung, Alexander - 2011
This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper tests for heterogeneity among committee members in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380404
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An International Comparison of Voting by Committees
Jung, Alexander - 2011
This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper tests for heterogeneity among committee members in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120227
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565610
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978960
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315477
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580916
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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Do differences in citizens’ policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123030
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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Do differences in citizens' policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133857
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The role of the state in economic transformation : comparing the transition experiences of Russia and China
Kotz, David M. - 2005 - Revised version
This paper compares two radically different approaches to transforming an economic system based on central planning and state property into a capitalist system, the neoliberal transition strategy and the state directed transition strategy. Russia s transition since 1992 is examined as an example...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527411