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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
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Why is Agricultural Employment Increasing in Turkey?
Gursel, Seyfettin; Imamoglu, Zumrut - Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Ekonomik ve Toplumsal … - 2011
Using panel data across 26 regions, this paper investigates why the long-run trend of decreasing share of agricultural employment following the usual path of economic development in Turkey, has been reversed in the aftermath of the global crisis. Our results show that the decrease in...
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The Case for Restricting Fiscal Policy Discretion
Fatás, Antonio; Mihov, Ilian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper studies how discretionary fiscal policy affects output volatility and the rate of economic growth. Using data on fifty-one countries we isolate five empirical regularities: (1) Governments that use often fiscal policy make their economies volatile; (2) The use of fiscal policy is...
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Foreign direct investment, political risk and the limited access order
Kluge, Janis - In: New political economy 22 (2017) 1, pp. 109-127
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Regional effects of federal tax shocks
Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - 2012
This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find considerable variations: estimated output multipliers lie...
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Firm Heterogeneity and Regional Business Cycles Differentials
Basile, Roberto; de Nardis, Sergio; Pappalardo, Carmine - 2012
This study represents a first attempt to empirically analyze the role of firm heterogeneity in regional business cycle behaviour. Working with monthly Italy's firms data and estimating a random effects ordered probit model, we first document sizable asymmetries in Northern and Southern firms...
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The Rhythm of the Deal: Negotiation as a Dance
Schlie, Erik H.; Young, Mark A. - 2008
In all the literature on the theory and practice of negotiation, the governing metaphor remains consistently one of war or fighting. This is true not only for tactical schools of power-based negotiation, but even for more constructive, interest-based approaches. Our language is infused with talk...
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Recession propagation in small regional economies: Spatial spillovers and endogenous clustering
Shibaev, Sergei S. - 2016
This paper develops a statistical model for measuring spatial interactions when estimating macroeconomic regimes and regime shifts. The model is applied to study the contagion and propagation of recessions in small regional economies in the United States from 1990 to 2015. The empirical analysis...
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Happiness in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd - 2004
This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant...
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Business cycle synchronization: A regional perspective
Beck, Krzysztof - 2015
Turmoil in euro area once more forces EU authorities to rethink future of further monetary integration. One of the most commonly used criterions for successful monetary in contemporary research is business cycle synchronization (BCS). Though BCS has been vastly described at country level, not as...
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