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Productivity Growth, Human Capital, and Technology Spillovers: Nonparametric Evidence for EU Regions

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper assesses the strength of productivity spillovers non-parametrically in a data-set of 12 industries and 231 NUTS2 regions in 17 European Union member countries between 1992 and 2006. It devotes particular attention to measuring catching up through spillovers depending on the technology...

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Towards a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates, in a simplified macro context, the joint determination of the (incorrect) perceived model and the equilibrium. I assume that the model is designed by a self-interested economist who knows the true structural model, but reports a distorted one so as to influence outcomes....

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Curriculum and Ideology

Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure …

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Economic Science and Political Influence

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze the...

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The possibility of ideological bias in structural macroeconomics models

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper studies the trade-offs that an expert with ideological biases faces in designing his model. I assume the perceived model must be autocoherent, in that its use by all agents delivers a self-concerming equilibrium. The exercise is carried in the context of a simplified AS-AD model,...

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Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Ideologues: Explaining Partisanship and Persistence in Politics (and Elsewhere)

Buehler, Benno; Kessler, Anke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

candidates and available policy alternatives. We show that both sides may be caught in an ideology trap: because voters expect … the perceived ideology of office holders to determine their political actions, politicians are tempted to act according to … their perceived ideology, resulting in political failure. …

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labour supply, aggregate … welfare state. More generally, the paper develops a theory of collective beliefs and motivated cognitions, including those …

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Ideology

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

remain obstinately blind to them, embracing a statist ideology and voting for an excessively large government. Conversely, an …-faire ideology and blind faith in the invisible hand. With public-sector capital, this interplay of beliefs and institutions leads to …

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Why are European Countries Diverging in their Unemployment Experience?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with the unemployment …

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