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Measuring Left-Right Political Orientation: The Choice of Response Format

Kroh, Martin - In: Public Opinion Quarterly 71 (2007) 2, pp. 204-220

Although left-right items are a standard tool of public opinion research, there is little agreement about the optimal response format. Two disputes can be identified in the literature: (1) whether to provide respondents with a small or large number of answer categories, and (2) whether or not to...

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Union wage demands with footloose firms

Persyn, Damiaan - 2009

This paper analyses the wage demands of a sector-level monopoly union facing internationally mobile firms. A simple two-country economic geography model is used to describe how firms relocate in function of international di erences in production costs and market size. The union sets wages in...

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Performance of Exporters: Scale Effects or Continuous Productivity Improvements

Kostevc, Crt - 2005

Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between exporting and productivity this paper analyzes the existence of 'learning-by-exporting'in Slovenian manufacturing between 1994 and 2002. This paper asks whether in addition to good firms self-selecting into exports and...

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Credit Market Imperfections and the Distribution of Policy Rents: The Common Agricultural Policy in the New EU Member States

Ciaian, Pavel; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2007

This article analyses how credit market imperfections affect the impacts of subsidies by analyzing the effects of agricultural subsidies in the new Eastern Member States of the European Union with a partial equilibrium model which integrates credit and land market imperfections. We show that...

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Skating on Thin Ice: Rule Changes and Team Strategies in the NHL

Banerjee, Anurag N.; Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Weersink, Alfons - 2006

receive a single point regardless of the outcome in overtime. A team scoring in the sudden-death 5-minute overtime period … would earn an additional point. Prior to the rule change in the 1999-2000 season, the team losing in overtime would receive … no points while the winning team earned 2 points. This paper presents a theoretical model to explain the effect of the …

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State Aid and Competition in Banking: the Case of China in the Late Nineties

Cheng, Xiaoqiang; Van Cayseele, Patrick - 2009

Many contributions to the literature on competition in banking use the Panzar and Rosse test (1987). This test encompasses a variety of market outcomes assuming firms maximize profits. However, when applied to the banking industry, this assumption may not be always valid as banks sometimes may...

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Land Rental Markets and Household Farms in Transition: Theory and Evidence from Hungary

Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Vranken, Liesbet - 2003

This paper analyses the detfirminants of household firms?participation in land rental markets in transition countries and what affects their access to land through rental markets. We derive several theoretical hypotheses on the impact of households?management ability, land endowment, land...

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A Theory of Standards-Driven Rural Development

Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Rozelle, Scott; Xiang, Tao; … - 2008

develops a firmal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model …

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Land Market Imperfections and Agricultural Policy Impacts in the New EU Member States: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis

Ciaian, Pavel; Swinnen, Johan - 2005

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The Market for Policy Communication

Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Vandemoortele, Thijs; … - 2010

We develop a model of policy communication by aid agencies, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations and we show how the need for fundraising affects the policy communication strategy of these organizations. To attract more funds, organizations may bias their communication. The bias depends on...

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