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Measurement of Economic Welfare Risk and Resilience of the Philippine Regions

Yonson, Rio - 2018

Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How resilient is each region to riverine flood disasters?...

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The Power of Parties

Fiva, Jon H. - 2013

As with the market for goods and services, democratic competition involves political parties offering their services (policy programs) to citizen-consumers who vote for their preferred partisan supplier. Little is known about the partial effect of a shift in parties' seat shares for given voter...

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Resource Rents, Power, and Political Stability

Bjorvatn, Kjetil - 2014

distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are … show that rents can promote political stability, but only when the political power is sufficiently concentrated. Indeed, if …

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The Peculiar Power of Pairs

Sass, Markus - 2015

To examine the effect of group size on the stability of prosocial behavior we used standard one-shot public good experiments with two and four subjects, which were conducted repeatedly three times at intervals of one week. Partner and stranger treatments were employed to control for group...

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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2021

given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in the … ideological predispositions and power on the efforts of the interest groups …

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Long Memory in US Real Output per Capita

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2009

This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1-2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...

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Decentralized Leadership

Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2016

This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...

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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School

Cohn, Alain - 2017

Laboratory experiments provide insights into the drivers of cheating behaviour, but it is unclear to what extent cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three...

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What Does Trade Openness Measure?

Fujii, Eiji - 2017

An empirical measure of trade openness is defined as the ratio of total trade to GDP, and represents a convenient variable routinely used for cross-country studies on a variety of issues. However, the effects that the crude measure captures remain ambiguous, making it difficult to interpret the...

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Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand

De Quidt, Jonathan - 2017

We propose a technique for assessing robustness of behavioral measures and treatment effects to experimenter demand effects. The premise is that by deliberately inducing demand in a structured way we can measure its influence and construct plausible bounds on demand-free behavior. We provide...

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