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Big Data Analytics : A New Perspective
Chudik, Alexander - 2016
experiments considered in this paper. Despite its simplicity, the theory behind the proposed approach is quite complicated. We …
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'True Believers' or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant
Krämer, Walter - 2013
For decades, there has been a heated debate about whether or not nuclear power plants contribute to childhood cancer in their respective neighbourhoods, with statisticians testifying on both sides. The present paper points to some flaws in the pro-arguments, taking a recent study prepared for...
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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Bergh, Andreas - 2018
This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas - 2015
We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … positive impact of mining on conflict at the local level. Quantitatively, the historical rise in prices (commodity super …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
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Mining Matters : Natural Resource Extraction and Local Business Constraints
Haas, Ralph de - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight … (<20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints of more distant firms relax. The negative local impact of mining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977161
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Private Monitoring, Collusion and the Timing of Information
Khalil, Fahad; Lawarrée, Jacques; Scott, Troy Joseph - 2015
When a principal’s monitoring information is private (non-verifiable), the agent should be concerned that the principal could misrepresent the information to reduce the agent’s wage or collect a monetary penalty. Restoring credibility may lead to an extreme waste of resources - the so-called...
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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2014
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
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Stranded Assets, the Social Cost of Carbon, and Directed Technical Change : Macroeconomic Dynamics of Optimal Climate Policy
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2016
The tractable general equilibrium model developed by Golosov et al. (2014), GHKT for short, is modified to allow for stock-dependent fossil fuel extraction costs and partial exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves, a negative impact of global warming on growth, mean reversion in climate damages,...
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Adaptive Social Learning
March, Christoph - 2016
The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their experience gained in past rounds to draw inferences from...
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Voluntary Disclosure Schemes for Offshore Tax Evasion : An Analysis
Gould, Matthew - 2016
In recent years tax authorities worldwide have implemented voluntary disclosure schemes to recover tax on offshore investments. Such Schemes are characterized by the acquisition of non-audit information on offshore holdings, and a subsequent opportunity for affected taxpayers to make a voluntary...
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