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Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although there are still doubts as to whether these loans can be developed into a profitable business. Our research sheds new light on the question of how many MSE banking units should optimally be created and supported in a certain region. We employ a unique data set from the European Bank ...
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Applied Economics
42 (2010), 6, S.701-716
| Dorothea Schäfer, Boriss Siliverstovs, Eva Terberger
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The paper presents a meta dataset covering 13 experiments on social learning games. It is found that in situations where it is empirically optimal to follow others and contradict one's own information, the players err in the majority of cases, forgoing substantial parts of earnings. The average player contradicts her own signal only if the empirical odds ratio of the own signal being wrong, conditional ...
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The American Economic Review
100 (2010), 5, S. 2340-2360
| Georg Weizsäcker
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The authors analyse newly collected time-series data measuring the dimensions of violent political conflict in Egypt. Attention is focused on the interaction between politically motivated attacks by Islamists and the counter-insurgency measures used by the Egyptian government. Both insurgency and counter-insurgency are multidimensional. Insurgencyincludes attacks on tourists, on Egyptian civilians ...
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Journal of Peace Research
47 (2010), 4, S. 433-448
| David Fielding, Anja Shortland
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This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East), and Madras (South). We find that the male-to-female sex ratio ...
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Demography
47 (2010), 4, S. 989-1012
| Tanika Chakraborty, Sukkoo Kim
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In political economics, the impact of institutions on income redistribution is mainly studied by comparing different forms of representative democracy. In this article, we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on redistribution first focusing on welfare and nonwelfare spending using yearly panel data for Swiss cantons. Then, we estimate a model, which explains the determinants of ...
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Economic Inquiry
48 (2010), 4, S. 817-840
| Lars P. Feld, Justina A. V. Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner
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After 20 years of transition, productivity in Eastern Germany is still considerably below the Western level. We study the development of the East-West productivity gap at the firm level and link it to firms' product policy. Redesigning their product range was a major challenge for Eastern enterprises as they sought their place in the international division of labour. Based on data from manufacturing ...
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Post-Communist Economies
22 (2010), 4, S. 499-511
| Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig, Ramona Voshage, Axel Werwatz
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Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund spezifischer Rekrutierungsmuster im Berufsfeld Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine Gesamterhebung der Professorinnen und Professoren an universitären soziologischen Fachinstituten und ausgewählten außeruniversitären wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen. Untersuchte ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
62 (2010), 4, S. 751-766
| Steffen Mau, Denis Huschka
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Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has the recent awareness over international quality standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research quantity and quality indicators ...
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Kyklos
63 (2010), 4, S. 479-494
| Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimarães, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Economic research on the determinants of gender differences in economic outcomes particularly in income and consumption is well established. Extending these investigations to other outcomes such as wealth up till now has been limited due to lack of individual-level data. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we find a significant "raw" gender wealth gap of 50,000€ for married partners. Decomposition ...
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Oxford Economic Papers
62 (2010), 4, S. 669-690
| Eva M. Sierminska, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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In 1997, the Comision Reguladora de Energia of Mexico implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican natural gas price to the Texas price. At that time, the Texas price reflected a reasonably competitive market. There have been dramatic increases in the demand for gas, and there are various bottlenecks in the supply of gas. As a result, the price of gas in Texas now reflects the quasi-rents created ...
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The Southern Economic Journal
76 (2010), 4, S. 1131-1136
| Dagobert L. Brito, Juan Rosellón