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Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation

Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021

We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal … (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the …, which suggests that structural transformation is a necessary condition for capital injections to foster village development …

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Relationship between the Real Estate Sector and the Stock Market in Chinese Provinces

Di, Zeyu; Heshmati, Almas; Liu, Sijia - 2022

In China, real estate and the stock market are the two main markets favored by both individual and institutional investors. There is a significant economic link between the two. Therefore, their relationship and long-term and short-term causality can provide good guidance for investors. This...

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On the Relationship between Public and Private Investment in the Euro Area

Dreger, Christian - 2014

capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques ac-counting for international spillovers are employed. While … private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the evidence is quite fragile for public and private investment flows …

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Strategies to Productively Reincorporate the Formerly-Incarcerated into Communities : A Review of the Literature

Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2018

Two-thirds of those released from prison in the United States will be re-arrested within three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and communities. There is tremendous public interest in ending this cycle, and public policies can help or hinder...

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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...

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Police and Crime : Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring

Buonanno, Paolo - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...

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Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2020

We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...

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Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in Europe, the Middle East and certain regions of Africa and Asia. In this paper, we focus on the case...

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The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2019

This paper aims to study the shortcomings and merits of the first experiment of quasi-market in the provision of employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has inspired the 2015 national reform within the Jobs Act, has reactivated and revitalized the sector by...

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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes : Evidence from Tax Reforms

Rubolino, Enrico - 2017

behavior related to the management of capital incomes in the very income top appears to lie behind the observed effects …

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