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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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The Empirics of China's Outward Direct Investment

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Qian, Xingwang - CESifo - 2009

We investigate the empirical determinants of China’s outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China’s investments in developed and developing countries are driven by different sets of factors. Subject to the differences between developed and developing countries, there is evidence...

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Self-preserving Leviathans - Evidence from Regional-level Data

Kluge, Jan; Markwardt, Gunther; Thater, Christian - CESifo - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of the intensity of political competition on the leviathan behavior by political incumbents. Using panel data from German municipalities, we test whether the relative political strength of parties in local councils influences the spending behavior of...

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Democracy with Group Identity

Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role of group decisiveness into voting incentives and...

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Corrupt Local Government as Resource Farmers: The Helping Hand and the Grabbing Hand

Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - CESifo - 2004

We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...

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Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England

Lockwood, Benjamin; Porcelli, Francesco - CESifo - 2011

This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...

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Product Market Regulation and Labor Market Outcomes: How can Deregulation Create Jobs?

Burda, Michael - CESifo - 2000

particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors …. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory … regime might play an important role; I argue that a nonnegligible comp o nent of the recent Dutch employment miracle could be …

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

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Trade Union Objectives and Economic Growth

Irmen, Andreas; Wigger, Berthold U. - CESifo - 2001

union which cares for wages and employment, we determine a range of trade union objectives and characterize the aggregate …

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Has the Dutch Miracle Come to an End?

Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2003

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this decline are the growth of part-time labor, the reform of the benefit system and wage moderation. Nevertheless, in 2002 the unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased...

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