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An International Comparison of Voting by Committees
Jung, Alexander - 2011
) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper …This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled … incoming information. Unconstrained reaction functions that measure the short-term response show that preference heterogeneity …
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Migration, political institutions, and social networks
Batista, Catia; Seither, Julia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2018
electoral knowledge (self-reports, behavioral, and actual voting measures). These data were purposely collected around the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904883
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Learning dynamics and the support for economic reforms : why good news can be bad
Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willems, Tim - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722659
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The economic analysis of populism a selective review of the literature
Ocampo, Emilio - 2019
Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in its infancy, great advances have been made in recent years. This paper reviews some key contributions behind this progress. When analyzing populism, economists face two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009237
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Did austerity cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877825
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Secondary Education, Economic Growth and Finance
Mammadov, Rza; Gumus, Erdal - 2021
The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship among education, education finance and economic growth on the basis of secondary education. In the research, the number of students enrolled in secondary education is the indicator of education, net government education expenditures...
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Human Equity? Regulating the New Income Share Agreements
Oei, Shu-Yi - 2015
A controversial new financing phenomenon has recently emerged. New “income share agreements” (“ISAs”) enable an individual to raise funds by pledging a percentage of her future earnings to investors for a certain number of years. These contracts, which have been offered by entities such...
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Reading, Writing, and Religion : Institutions and Human Capital Formation
Chaudhary, Latika; Rubin, Jared - 2010
In this paper, we empirically test the role that religious and political institutions play in the accumulation of human capital. Using a new data set on literacy in colonial India, we find that Muslim literacy is negatively correlated with the proportion of Muslims in the district, although we...
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Trade, Income Inequality and Investment in Education
Kimakova, Alena - 2008
of public versus private investment in university education, tuition fees, educational subsidies and access to student …
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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...
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