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Administrative Delays as Barriers to Trade

Régibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

new product into the market. The home government may apply an import tariff, an administrative delay or both to the … tariff and the administrative delay on the timing of new product introductions and the resulting changes in home, foreign and … world welfare. We show that administrative delays are less efficient instruments for maximizing home welfare than tariffs …

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Families as Shocks

Cubeddu, Luis; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this Paper we show the quantitative importance of the process that determines changes in family composition to determine the main macroeconomic magnitudes. We do so by modeling family type as a stochastic process that affects households in a way similar to shocks to earnings. Agents respond...

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Network Games with Incomplete Information

De Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We consider a network game with strategic complementarities where the individual reward or the strength of interactions is only partially known by the agents. Players receive different correlated signals and they make inferences about other players' information. We demonstrate that there exists...

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The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure

Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We survey the literatures on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of 'macro' and 'micro' characteristics of social inter-action networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...

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Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance in Political Selection in China

Jia, Ruixue; Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Seim, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Who becomes a top politician in China? We focus on provincial leaders, a pool of candidates for top political office, and examine how their chance of being promoted depends on performance - measured by provincial economic growth - and connections with top politicians - measured by past joint...

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You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment

Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We examine a randomized trial that allows separate identification of peer screening and enforcement of credit contracts. A South African microlender offered half its clients a bonus for referring a friend who repaid a loan. For the remaining clients, the bonus was conditional on loan approval....

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Germs, Social Networks and Growth

Fogli, Alessandra; Veldkamp, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Does the pattern of social connections between individuals matter for macroeconomic outcomes? If so, how does this effect operate and how big is it? Using network analysis tools, we explore how different social structures affect technology diffusion and thereby a country’s rate of...

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Do Local Amenities Affect the Appeal of Regions in Europe for Migrants?

Ketterer, Tobias; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper delves into the factors which determine the attractiveness of regions in Europe for migrants. Contrary to the literature on the US which has increasingly focused on the role of amenities, existing research in Europe tends to highlight the predominance of economic conditions as the...

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Networks in Economics

Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We provide an overview on networks in economics. We first look at the theoretical aspects of network economics using a game-theoretical approach. We derive some results on games on networks and network formation. We also study what happens when agents choose both links and actions. We then...

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Multivariate Choice and Identification of Social Interactions

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Liu, Xiaodong; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the impact of peers on own outcomes where all agents embedded in a network choose more than one activity. We develop a simple network model that illustrates these issues. We differentiate between the ‘seemingly unrelated’ simultaneous equations model where...

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