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A computational model of the effects of borrower default on the stability of P2P lending platforms
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has attracted scholarly attention because of its economic significance and potential to democratize access to finance....
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How a French corporate tax reform raised wages: evidence from an innovative method
This paper documents the effect on wages of one of the most far-reaching French economic reforms of the past decade. The reform, implemented between...
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Non-tax revenue in the European Union: A source of fiscal risk?
Despite its relevance for fiscal policy, non-tax revenue is only defined by exclusion and it is an area that has been scarcely studied for developed...
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An attempt to restore Wagner’s law of increasing state activity
According to Adolph Wagner’s “Law of Increasing State Activity” economic development is accompanied by an increasing role of state activities and...
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Inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil
In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we construct an opportunity index...
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Is more health always better for society? Exploring public preferences that violate monotonicity
There has recently been some literature on the properties of a Health-Related Social Welfare Function (HRSWF). The aim of this article is to...
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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence
This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50...
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Conflicting Interests in Environmental Policy-making?
This paper focuses on possible conflicts of interests between the political aims of reduced emissions from energy consumption, redistribution of...
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Unsicherheit als zentrales Problem integrativer Leistungserstellung
In der ökonomischen Literatur gibt es eine Vielzahl von Definitionen, die Unsicherheit beschreiben. Bei einem Vergleich dieser Definitionsansätze...
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Public Policy and Environmental Research and Development
The paper evaluates several potential public policies to increase research and development (R&D) investments with the goal of introducing innovations...
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Dissolving a partnership (un)fairly
In an incomplete information, common values setting with risk-neutral agents, we consider mechanisms for allocating the assets of a dissolving...
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The UK Productivity Gap and the Foundation for Government Policy
This chapter sets out the main determinants of economic growth and describes the historic productivity gap between the UK and other countries. It...
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Conflict, Distribution and Population Growth
This paper studies an optimal foraging model where distributive conflicts among foragers emerge from population growth. It investigates distributive...
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Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Birth-Date Dependent Classical Principles
This paper shows that, in a partially welfarist framework that permits discounting, perperiod social evaluations can be consistent with a timeless...
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Life expectancy of international cartels: An empirical analysis
This paper quantifies the importance of the various determinants of life expectancy for international cartels active throughout this century. I...
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Optimal Stabilization with a Quarterly Model of the Federal Republic of Germany
With a version of the quarterly model of the German institutes of economic research the question shall be answered whether monetary and fiscal...