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This paper introduces a new approach to "cultural transmission of preferences" (see Bisin and Verdier, 2000, 2001). It is based on the conceptualization of the culture of a person as a set of cultural values and attitudes, represented as an n-dimensional tuple in Euclidean space. The culture of...
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This paper introduces a generalized representation of the formation of continuous preferences (which can reflect different intensities). The preference intensity that a child adopts is formed as the collective outcome of all role models for preference intensities - which are derived from the...
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growth' was jointly organised by the European Parliament and Eurofound, with the participation of Martin Schulz, President of …
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green power through 2015 that were made using historical data and three scenarios: low-growth, high-growth, and negative … results of this forecast, including uncertainties related to growth assumptions, the impacts that policy may have on the …
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early growth of the Internet are expected to be informative and pertinent. …
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suggests that state policy will continue to drive even faster growth over the next decade. Federal policy has also played a …
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growth, shocking the world as they emerged as “Baltic Tigers” at the turn of the century. Russia adopted a flat tax regime in … of the flat tax rate on the Baltic countries’ economic growth remains debated.Though there is clearly timing a … correlation between the Baltic States’ economic  growth and the implementation of the flat tax, the current economic analysis on …
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capable of performing human work skills. The basic model, with a single sector and homogeneous labor, projects output growth … rates over the next few decades that are substantially above historical growth rates in industrialized countries, assuming … plausible increases in computer skill. The projected output growth is accompanied by structural changes reflecting the reduced …
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’s subsequent growth performance. We employ threshold regression techniques on five crisis indicators commonly used in the … literature, to identify the relevant “crisis values” and to estimate the differential postliberalisation growth effects in the … crisis and non-crisis regimes. We find that the magnitude of the acceleration in postliberalisation growth depends on the …
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Japan. Our findings suggest that exchange rate is affected by growth rate, and trade and capital flows: other less …
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