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World heritage: Where are we? An empirical analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2011

A statistical analysis of the UNESCO World Heritage List is presented. The World Heritage Convention intends to protect … task must be left to the discussion in the World Heritage Convention. …

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War signals: A theory of trade, trust and conflict

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other...

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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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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 … total sales worldwide with certainty, estimates suggest sales are around 150 billion dollar a year in the United States … year in enforcement of the laws for marijuana sales (Miron, 2005). For the past 30 years there has been a debate regarding …

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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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