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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Non-Parametric Tests of the Tragedy of the Commons
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2019
that rejection rates of the model increase after property rights reforms moved the fishery away from the tragedy of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480342
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Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management
Anderson, Terry L. - 2010
We show that grandfathering fishing rights to local users or recognizing first possessions is more dynamically efficient than auctions of such rights. It is often argued that auctions allocate rights to the highest-valued users and thereby maximize resource rents. We counter that rents are not...
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Monnet's Error?
Guiso, Luigi - 2015
in pro-European sentiments in the EU 15 countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty seems to have reduced the pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457545
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Do Subsidies to Commercial R&D Reduce Market Failures? Microeconomic Evaluation Studies
Klette, Tor Jakob - 1999
A number of market failures have been associated with R&D investments and significant amounts of public money have been spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review some recent microeconomic studies evaluating effects of government sponsored commercial R&D. We...
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Input Subsidies and the Destruction of Natural Capital : Chinese Distant Water Fishing
Englander, Gabriel; Zhang, Jihua; Villaseñor-Derbez, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Input subsidies in natural resource sectors are widely believed to cause depletion of the natural capital on which those sectors rely. But identification and data challenges have stymied attempts to empirically estimate the causal effect of subsidies on resource extraction. China's fishing fleet...
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Misfortune and Mistake : The Financial Conditions and Decision-making Ability of High-cost Loan Borrowers
Carvalho, Leandro - 2019
("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers are especially illiquid just before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480273
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The Effect of the Economic Collapse in Iceland on the Probability of Cardiovascular Events
Birgisdóttir, Kristín H. - 2018
We explore whether the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and subsequent economic crisis affected the probability of …
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Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland
Aspelund, Karl M. - 2020
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed them at a high presumed risk of infection. Testing regimes of this sort potentially result in a high proportion of cases going undetected. Quantifying this...
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Monetary Policy, and Real Exchange Rates : Iceland and the 2008 Crisis
Edwards, Sebastian; Cabezas, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use detailed data for Iceland to examine two often-neglected aspects of the "exchange rate pass-through" problem … price indexes in Iceland for 2003-2019, a period that includes Iceland's banking and currency crisis of 2008. We find that … the pass-through declined around the time Iceland reformed its "flexible inflation targeting," and that the coefficients …
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