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, the factors that led to the crisis in Rhode Island will be unveiled, and possible solutions to the state-specific problem …
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This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the...
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As the former Special Assistant to the President for International Economics at the National Economic Council (NEC) at the White House, Robert F. Wescott helped develop policies on a wide range of internationaleconomic and financial issues. Prior to joining the NEC in early 1999, he was Deputy...
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The state,writes Douglass North, trades a group of services, which we shall callprotection and justice, for revenue … thereforehave an incentive to hide revenues from the state, while differing in their ability todo so. Thus, the state will typically …
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. Trade associations and firms emerged as the central actors driving industry development, with the state playing an … increasingly supporting role. This institutional arrangement represents a departure from the Indian state’s traditional approach to … development and the role of the state in other successful developmental models. A key reason why industry, rather than the state …
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information through these quality signals and consumer choices. In this paper, we explore 1) whether the credibility of an … representative sample of 460 US consumers and analyzed through structural equation modeling. The results show that credibility …
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Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...
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This paper analyses the impact of quality based labelling on product prices,factor allocation and the resulting effects on producers within the context of aninternational trading system. A general equilibrium model, calibrated to 1998 data,describes United States and European Union labelling...
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The idea of a flat tax, a tax levied at a single rate, has become an increasingly discussed and implemented fiscal strategy across Europe and the rest of the world. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania adopted flat tax systems in 1994 and 1995, making them the first modern countries to adopt flat...
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respondents to state their confidence, using my method, which induces the respondents to reveal confidence, there is a sizable and …
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