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The Quality of Life, the National Interest and the Role of Economics.

Gruen, F. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

This paper is a contribution to a series of seminars in honour of the late Ronald Henderson. The author was asked to address the question of how the national interest, possible loss of national sovereignty can be addressed within the market framework and whether there are reasons for concern...

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Competition, Complementarity and Contagion in East Asia

Diwan, Ishac; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper explores to what extent the magnitude and speed of the contagion effects that materialized in East Asia in the second half of 1997 may have had "real" underpinnings, in the sense that the pattern of production, consumption and trade increased the vulnerability of East Asian countries...

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Fiscal Policy Coordination and EMU: A Dynamic Game Approach

Brociner, Andrew; Levine, Paul L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper considers fiscal policy coordination in a European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). We use an overlapping generations model which leads to departures from Barro-Ricardian neutrality. In our calibrated model, however, we find these departures to be rather small. Two models are...

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Russia's European Economic Integration: Escapism and Realities

Hamilton, Carl B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Both Russia and the EU are undertaking significant changes in foreign trade relations. Russia seeks WTO accession and … relationship can EU and Russia develop? The Paper analyses the asymmetric trade structure, the unstable and confused trade relation …, as well as both form and content of EU’s and Russia’s options for the future. Conclusions are e.g. that (i) present EU …

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in ‘gradualist’ Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from … Russia displayed job flow behaviour quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bear …

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Neighbourhoods, Households and Income Dynamics: A Semi-Parametric Investigation of Neighbourhood Effects

Bolster, Anne; Burgess, Simon; Johnston, Ron; Jones, Kelvyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Using a unique dataset, we present evidence on income trajectories of people living in micro neighbourhoods. We place bounds on the influence of neighbourhood making as few parametric assumptions as possible. The Paper offers a number of advances. We exploit a dataset that is large,...

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The Unemployment Trap Meets the Age-Earning Profile.

Chapman, Bruce; Jordan, James; Olivier, Ken; Quiggin, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2000

The relative costs of taking employment or receiving welfare are usually understood through comparisons of a person’s social security entitlements and their wage alternative, known as replacement rates. In some situations it appears that the additional income from working is negligible, and...

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Poverty in the Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working-Age Poor

Klugman, Jeni; Micklewright, John; Redmond, Gerry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

(we first review experience in Central and Eastern Europe). We focus on the case of Russia, and simulate a simple scheme …

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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses the welfare effects of price restrictions on private contracting in a world where agents have a limited cognitive ability. People compute the costs and benefits of entering a transaction with an error. The government knows the distribution of true costs and benefits as well...

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Immigrant Assimilation And Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into Or Out Of Welfare?

Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a...

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