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Conscription as regulation
Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2004
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Conscription as regulation
Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - In: American law and economics review : the journal of the … 7 (2005) 1, pp. 85-111
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002750748
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Conscription as Regulation
Mulligan, Casey - 2004
We examine the practice of military conscription around the world from the perspective of two standard theories, and a new one, which emphasizes the fixed cost of introducing and administering the draft as a deterrent to its use. We find that, holding the relative size of the military constant,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468135
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Conscription as Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
We examine the practice of military conscription around the world from the perspective of two standard theories, and a new one, which emphasizes the fixed cost of introducing and administering the draft as a deterrent to its use. We find that, holding the relative size of the military constant,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229072
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The transaction costs perspective on costs and benefits of government regulation
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Graaf, Marc de; Nijsen, André F. - 2009
regulation by taking all transaction costs into account which stem from the principal/agent relationship between regulatory … regulated entities – part of these costs can be regarded as the administrative burden of regulation for the private sector – but … society due to e.g. miscommunication on the aims of regulation, and are, of course, hard to quantify. A cost calculation using …
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Short-term impacts of the GDPR on firm performance
Koski, Heli; Valmari, Nelli - 2020
-term impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on European companies' financial performance.Our empirical analysis …
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Culture and the Regulation of Entry
Davis, Lewis; Williamson, Claudia R. - 2014
political institutions. In particular, we find that individualism has a greater impact on entry regulation in societies with … social preference for regulation, and political and legal institutions determine the degree to which those preferences are …
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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State
Charap, Joshua - 2006
This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...
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Regulation As Delegation
Bar-Gill, Oren - 2015
-Agent Theory (BPAT), a great deal of modern regulation can be helpfully evaluated as a hypothetical delegation. Shifting from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027459
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The political economy of conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
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