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Levy, Daniel; Snir, Avichai - 2017

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

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Financial Centres’ Polyarchy and Competitiveness Does Political Participation Change a Financial Centre’s Competitiveness?

Michael, Bryane; Candelon, Bertrand - 2018

What role does polyarchy (and thus increased democracy) play in aiding the development of an international financial … their financial centres. We look at the growth of these financial centres as the extent to which they attract more funds … non-previously powerful sectors. Namely, the growth of an international financial centre’s centrality in global financial …

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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of future mobility and the belief that society offers equal opportunities. We add to previous research by investigating the role of individual and social norms on rent seeking. We find...

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Effects of third party errors

Šastitko, Andrej E. - 2013

Type-I and type-II errors effects do matter both from the rules enforcement perspective and vertically upward to rules enactment. The paper support conventional idea about detrimental influence on deterrence of both types of errors. At the same time special role of type-I errors is demonstrated...

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The Theory of Interhybridity: Socio-political Dimensions and Migration

Aliu, Armando - 2013

currently an image that includes characteristics of both the Soviet socialism and the European democracy. The EU foreign … law and democracy score, the economic liberation score, political and human rights, civil society score and citizenship …

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The Optimal Design of the Qianhai Special Economic Zone

Michael, Bryane; Sharif, Naubahar; Park, Seung-Ho - 2015

Qianhai – an innovation park in Shenzhen – has the possibility of boosting innovation in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and in the wider region. This paper analyses the costs and benefits of existing plans for Qianhai and discusses the profit-maximising design of the Qianhai. We review existing...

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Israel's Global Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2004

The flaring up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s caught most experts by surprise. The 1990s euphoria of the Oslo ‘peace process’ suddenly dissipated, replaced by a second intifada; the newspeak of ‘peace dividends’ gave way to debates about ‘imperialism’; and instead...

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New Economy or Transnational Ownership? The Global Political Economy of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

An analysis of the political economy of Israel during the 1990s.

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Global Accumulation and the New Middle East Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

The unravelling of the Middle-East peace process continues to baffle the pundits. The early optimism of the Oslo peace accord has now turned into despair. Prime minister Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist. The Palestinians have embarked on a new Intifada. And Israel has re-occupied...

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The End of Neoliberalism?

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2003

This article was commissioned by the French newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper was one of several sponsors of an International Conference on Global Regulation, held at the University of Sussex on May 29-31, 2003, where we presented a plenary paper. As part of its sponsorship, Le Monde agreed to...

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