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Political Support for Reforms : The Role of Unemployment and the Private Sector

Fidrmuc, Jan - 1998

I perform an empirical analysis of the relationship between economics and politics in the countries in transition. I use regional results of national elections in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to link variations in support for reforms with the economic effects of reforms...

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Representation, Sophisticated Voting, and the Size of the Gridlock Region

Kang, Myunghoon - 2019

We propose a formal model that investigates the institutional cause of the expansion of the gridlock region in a legislative body under supermajority rule. We show that the interaction between a legislative election and the supermajority rule in the legislative policy-making process causes an...

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Dynamic of Political Leadership : From Transitive System to Stable Regime

Ponomarenko, Nadezhda - 2018

The paper investigates the dynamic of leadership in the transitional period of political system in comparison with the type of leadership in stable political regime. In this paper, the regional focus of post-Soviet Russia was used. The research task was to find out how the type of regional...

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Combining Cumulative Sum Change‐Point Detection Tests for Assessing the Stationarity of Univariate Time Series

Bücher, Axel; Fermanian, Jean‐David; Kojadinovic, Ivan - 2018

We derive tests of stationarity for univariate time series by combining change‐point tests sensitive to changes in the contemporary distribution with tests sensitive to changes in the serial dependence. The proposed approach relies on a general procedure for combining dependent tests based on...

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In Search of the Holy Grail : Policy Convergence, Experimentation and Economic Performance

Mukand, Sharun; Rodrik, Dani - 2003

We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country's own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little "policy experimentation." Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...

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Budget Deficit Persistence and the Twin Deficits Hypothesis

Normandin, Michel - 1998

This paper gauges the causal relationship between external and budget deficits by using Blanchard's overlapping generations model. This model tests the twin deficits hypothesis (i.e., there is a positive relationship between the deficits) and the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis (i.e., there is...

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Frequency of Trade and the Determinacy of Equilibrium Paths : Logarithmic Economies of Overlapping Generations Under Certainty

Polemarchakis, H. M.; Demichelis, Stefano - 2002

Equilibrium paths in economies of overlapping generations depend on the frequency of trade. In a standard example, determinacy obtains as the frequency of trades tends to infinity or trade occurs in continuous time. If time extends infinitely into the infinite past as well as into the infinite...

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Can I Trust Your Findings? Ruling out Alternative Explanations in International Business Research

Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Andersson, Ulf; Brannen, Mary Yoko - 2018

, but also in theory building and in research design. Our discussion covers both qualitative and quantitative studies …

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Chronic Kidney Disease : A Predictive Model Using Decision Tree

Chaurasia, Vikas; Pal, Saurabh; Tiwari, B.B - 2020

information for intelligent and effective decision making. Advanced data processing techniques in discovery of hidden patterns and … survival of the patient. Decision Tree algorithms are used for extracting information within the kind of a collection of … decision rules. The decision-making algorithm is employed to predict the survival of the CKD patient and additionally who is …

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Environmental Liability for Deep Seabed Mining in the Area : An Urgent Case for a Robust Strict Liability Regime

MacMaster, Keith - 2019

This article will focus on liabilities for the Area and examine the question of liability for the various actors involved, including contractors/operators who carry out the exploitation of resources, sponsoring States, flag States, and the International Seabed Authority. It is necessary to...

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