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Bernasconi, Claudia - 2013

This paper investigates empirically how similarity of demand structures - approximated by similarity of income distributions - affects trade patterns along both the extensive and intensive margin. The idea that similarity of demand structures intensifies trade goes back to the well-known Linder...

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Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics

Boppart, Timo; Staub, Kevin E. - 2012

A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by...

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Imbalance of world heritage list: Did the UNESCO strategy work?

Steiner, Lasse; Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

The official intention of the UNESCO World Heritage List is to protect the global heritage. However, the imbalance of … the distribution of Sites according to countries and continents is striking. Consequently, the World Heritage Committee … launched the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List in 1994. To date, there have not …

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Emerging from the war: Gold standard mentality, current accounts and the international business cycle 1885-1939

Hoffmann, Mathias; Woitek, Ulrich - 2011

We study international business cycles and capital flows in the UK, the United States and the Emerging Periphery in the period 1885-1939. Based on the same set of parameters, our model explains current account dynamics under both the Classical Gold Standard and during the Interwar period. We...

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Marijuana on main street: What if?

Jacobi, Liana; Michelle, Sovinsky - 2012

Illicit drug use is prevalent around the world. While the nature of the market makes it difficult to determine the …

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The effects of airline alliances: what do the aggregate data say?

Gagnepain, Philippe; Marín, Pedro L. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 3, pp. 251-276

We consider an empirical model of worldwide airline alliances that we apply to a large set of companies for the period 19952000. Using observations at the network level, we estimate a cost, capacity, and demand system that accounts for cross-price elasticities. Our contribution consists in...

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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence

Dolado, Juan J. Dolado; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 3, pp. 367-393

This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50 economics departments in 2005, as ranked by Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some...

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Community-based health insurance and social capital: A review

Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5

Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...

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What international monetary system for a fast-changing world economy

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2011

long-term evolution of the balance of economic weight in the world economy. Such an evolution may mitigate some flaws of …

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Real effective exchange rates for 178 countries: A new database

Darvas, Zsolt - 2012

We use data on exchange rates and consumer price indices and the weighting matrix derived by Bayoumi, Lee and Jaewoo (2006) to calculate consumer price index-based REER. The main novelties of our database are that (1) it includes data for 178 countries - many more than in any other publicly...

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