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It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...
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Empirical research shows that international human rights law is to a large extent ineffective. Individual complaint mechanisms are the only significantly effective enforcement mechanism. Certainly many variables influence the success of enforcement through judicial or quasi-judicial mechanisms...
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This paper develops a production function which two separate elasticities of substitution between two input factors. One of these elasticities is obtained if the factor intensity equals a particular baseline value. The second part of the paper gives an economic application and shows the...
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impact on this process. We create entrepreneurship indices for 34 world cities exploiting the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … expect that most indices will be higher for world cities, although exceptions are also plausible, for instance in world … cities where the government resides. Our findings predominantly confirm the entrepreneurial advantage of world cities. …
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There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...
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Information and communication technologies are transforming economies and societies around the world. In this respect …
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Despite the world-wide stock market breakdown of the internet economy in the year 2001, the new information and … communication technologies will enable firms to integrate world-wide e-commerce in their business. This will facilitate the entry of … firms in every connected country into international markets and perhaps value up their market position. Therefore, the world …
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Monetary history is characterised by crisis and reform. The paper is dedicated to an explanation of what makes monetary reforms successful. A cross-sectional econometric analysis is chosen to deal with this problem. It is based on a standard macroeconomic model of commitment and credibility. As...
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There is increasing demand for models of time-varying and non-Gaussian dependencies for mul- tivariate time-series. Available models suffer from the curse of dimensionality or restrictive assumptions on the parameters and the distribution. A promising class of models are the hierarchical...
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In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...
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