[PDF] Top 20 Essays in immigration economics and political economy

... children in an immigrant’s household as control, but did not take any particular characteristics or circumstances of these children into ...2003; and Djajic, ...differences in children’s ... See full document

... the political incentives that media outlets have to bias the coverage of local corruption cases, we must recall the a priori considerable potential impact of scandals on ...mention in Chapter 2, the vast ... See full document

... derived and calibrated for Croatia in order to evaluate whether the CNB holds more reserves than the model suggests are ...strong. In other words, recent upsurge of reserves observed in ... See full document

... of political- economy decisions under repeated voting in general dynamic ...The economy is characterized by two overlapping generations (workers and capitalists), two production sec- ... See full document

... share in manufacturing. Data on employment share in manufactur- ing come from Sample Supplement of the Brazilian Population Censuses (question´ario da amostra: IBGE, 2000 and ...working in the ... See full document

... articulate political views, but their effectiveness is ...brands in the US were targeted by a call for a boycott in the period ...US in Iraq were probably ineffective (Ashenfelter et ...firms, ... See full document

... expectations in the ...role in decision making and are a crucial feature in ...Typically, in macroeconomic modeling it is assumed that agents are endowed with rational ...agents ... See full document

... regulations in the retail sectors of various countries. For instance, Bertrand and Kramarz (2002) exploit a French regulation requiring regional approval for the opening of large retail ...entry and ... See full document

... discussed in Alston and Ferrie (1985, 1993, ...– in exchange of contractual arrangements that were favorable for plantation ...Alston and Ferrie argue that these paternalistic arrangements ... See full document

... with. In particular, for any threshold, there are pro…les of true opinions in which the decision in some equilibria is di¤erent from that obtained when all agents vote ...greater in the sense ... See full document

... allocate in his jurisdiction positively, but do not affect the amount of resources that the accountability sector has to invest on political ...(reduction) in the level of corruption ... See full document

... conditionally in some predetermined ...(Martine and McGranahan, 2010; Martine and Diniz, 1997; Martine, 1990). In fact, Frei Vicente of Salvador, a Franciscan scholar of the time, said that ... See full document

... “Pairwise In uences and Bargaining Among the Many” we analyze how pairwise in uences affect the nature and solution of distribu- tional con ...ict. In a model with pairwise in ... See full document

... preferences, and the effect this has on the choice between centralized and decentralized redistribution, has also been investigated from a theoretical ...perspective. In his seminal work, Pauly ... See full document

... accepted in the developed economies, but the basis for this is common sense, whereas the legal basis for this argument is ...policy in 1997-2005, a managed floating system in 2005-2008 and a ... See full document

... papers in the ―Theory‖ JEL field and of econometric method papers in the ―Econometrics‖ JEL field, and this pattern is indeed ...papers in the ―Labor‖, ―Health and urban ... See full document

... happens in the real ...price and quantity competition. A natural development is to study situations in which firms can decide both on price and ...equilibrium in pure strategies. ... See full document

... However, following Marcet and Marimon (1999), we can obtain a recursive formulation of our problem by expanding the set of state variables to include new variables that summarize the h[r] ... See full document

... El segundo bloque se abre con el trabajo de Jon Eguia, en el que revisa la utilidad de los modelos espaciales para explicar la competencia política y presenta evidencias contenidas en [r] ... See full document

... entrepreneurs in the formal sector Maloney and Ribeiro (1999), Packard ...active and voluntary entrepreneurial small firm sector, where individuals choose to be informal because they expect a greater ... See full document