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Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India
Besley, Timothy J.; Pande, Rohini; Rao, Vijayendra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how …
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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25% of world … about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India’s de-industrialization. The construction of new …
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Can Competition Replace Regulation for Small Utility Customers?
Green, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Many utility markets are now being opened to competition, and some regulators have expressed the hope that this will make the regulation of consumer prices unnecessary. In this paper, entrants offer (differentiated) 'added value', but consumers incur a switching cost if they buy from one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136643
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Intermodal and Intramodal Competition in Passenger Rail Transport
Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The objective of the paper is to elaborate a simulation model to analyse inter and intra-modal competition in the transport industry, based on game theory models. In our setting, consumers choose a transport mode and an operator to travel on a given city-pair; operators strategically decide on...
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On the Origins of Land Use Regulations: Theory and Evidence from US Metro Areas
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints benefit the former group via increasing property prices but hurt the latter via increasing development costs. In this setting,...
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On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints benefit the former group (via increasing property prices) but hurt the latter (via increasing development costs). More desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557007
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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru
Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We ex-amine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...
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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
Caselli, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production and efficiency. It answers the question ‘how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to...
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Nominal Contracts as Behaviour Towards Risk
Minford, Patrick; Nowell, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
We look for a theoretical justification of nominal wage contracts in household diversification of risk. We assume it is more costly for households than for firms to use financial markets for this purpose. In a calibrated general equilibrium model we find from stochastic simulation that where...
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South-North Refugee Migration: Lessons for Development Cooperation
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
As exemplified in the 1995 Mediterranean Declaration of the European Union, migration has become a major concern for European development policies. By enhancing socio-economic conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach...
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