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On Austrian analysis of entrepreneurship and my own

Baumol, William J. - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001836266

Liang, James - 2014

Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047037

Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections : A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra - 2010

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is lt;igt;Storable...

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Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation

Card, David - 2010

In a classic paper, Schelling (1971) showed that extreme segregation can arise from social interactions in white preferences: once the minority share in a neighborhood exceeds a critical quot;tipping point,quot; all the whites leave. We use regression discontinuity methods and Census tract data...

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Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2009

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...

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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's Reclaim Program

Mansur, Erin T. - 2019

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a counterfactual command-and-control policy. We develop a normatively significant metric with which to rank the various distributions in a manner consistent with an explicit...

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Leveling the Playing Field : How Campaign Advertising Can Help Non-Dominant Parties

Larreguy Arbesu, Horacio - 2016

Voters are often uncertain about and biased against non-dominant political parties. By reducing the information gap with dominant parties, political advertising may thus disproportionately benefit non-dominant parties electorally. We test this argument in Mexico, where three main parties...

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Democracy for Polarized Committees : The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants

Casella, Alessandra - 2016

In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...

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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

Casella, Alessandra - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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