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Does Violence Pay? The Effect of Ethnic Rebellion on Overcoming Political Deprivation

Koos, Carlo - 2014

Studies have found that politically deprived groups are more likely to rebel. However, does rebellion increase the likelihood of achieving political rights? This article proposes that rebellion helps ethnic groups to overcome deprivation. I illustrate this by using a typical case (the Ijaw's...

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Developing career self-management skills: A study in higher education

Pinto, Joana Carneiro; Taveira, Maria do Céu - In: The International Journal of Management Science and … (2013) 8-(Apr-Jun), pp. 28-58

This study aims to evaluate the Career Self-Management Seminar, version B. This is a psychological intervention model, developed to support PhD students in the improvement of crucial skills for effective career problem solving and decision making. Sample included 63 PhD's, (49 experimental...

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An evaluation of German active labor market policies and its entrepreneurship promotion

Zöllner, Moritz; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2016

This paper reviews the results of studies that investigate the most important active labour market policy (ALMP) measures in Germany. A particular focus is on programs devoted to foster entrepreneurship which can make important contributions to a country's growth and social welfare. The...

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A Productive Clash of Cultures: Injecting Economics into Leadership Research

Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016

broad set of topics including the foundations of leadership, leader emergence, and leader effectiveness. At the same time …

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Communication and decision-making by central bank committees: different strategies, same effectiveness?

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking …

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How should central banks communicate?

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

the diversity of views on the economic outlook that enhance the effectiveness of central bank communication. …

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Social value of public information: testing the limits to transparency

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2007

FOMC decisions as well as the future policy path. Second, the effectiveness of communication is found to depend on the …

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Purdah: on the rationale for central bank silence around policy meetings

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2008

Despite substantial differences in monetary policy and communication strategies, many central banks share the practice of purdah, a self-imposed guideline of abstaining from communication around policy meetings or other important events. This practice is remarkable, as it seems to contradict the...

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Euroscepticism and EU cohesion policy: The impact of micro-level policy effectiveness on voting behaviour

Bachtrögler, Julia; Oberhofer, Harald - 2018

-European or eurosceptic voting behaviour. In order to measure the effectiveness of EU structural funds and Cohesion Fund … election in 2017. The estimation results reveal a significant negative relationship between the effectiveness of EU funds …

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The effectiveness of the EU economic governance framework

Dumitru, Stefan Marian - In: CES Working Papers 9 (2017) 4, pp. 529-547

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of the European Union’s (EU) economic governance framework … have been undertaken in recent years. In spite of this, its effectiveness in tackling challenges that might appear … improving effectiveness of EU economic governance lies in the EU’s ability to build a stronger foundation for its institutions …

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