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    Income Inequality and FDI: Evidence with Turkish Data 

    Ucal, Meltem; Bilgin, Mehmet Hüseyin; Haug, Alfred A.
    This paper explores how foreign direct investment (FDI) and other determinants impact income inequality in Turkey in the short- and long-run. We apply the ARDL (Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag) modelling approach, which ...
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    Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa 

    Adrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, Panicos; Fielding, David
    We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract ...
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    Mapping Medieval and Modern Chauvinism in England 

    Fielding, David
    There is evidence for the long-run persistence of geographical variation in tolerance towards other ethnicities. However, existing studies of tolerance use data from countries with long-standing patterns of ethnic diversity, ...
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    New Reform Strategies and Welfare Participation in Canada 

    Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd
    This paper measures the extent to which declines in Canadian welfare participation were associated with novel and aggressive welfare reforms. Referred to as new reform strategies, these welfare policy variables are: work ...
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    Quantity restrictions with imperfect enforcement in an over-used commons: Permissive regulation to reduce over-use? 

    Kim, Jeong-Yoo; Berg, Nathan
    This paper presents a model of quantity regulation aimed at mitigating externalities from over-use of a commons: for example, restrictions on use of automobiles, fisheries, computer networks and electronic stock quotation ...
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    Estimating the Economic Effects of the Canterbury Earthquakes Sequence using Synthetic Control Methods 

    Miller, Evan
    Since, 2010, New Zealand, Japan and Haiti have suffered from large scale damages as the result of earthquakes. Along with the devastating immediate losses associated with such disasters, particularly the loss of lives, ...
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    Artificial Neural Networks and Aggregate Consumption Patterns in New Zealand 

    Farhat, Dan
    This study engineers a household sector where individuals process macroeconomic information to reproduce consumption spending patterns in New Zealand. To do this, heterogeneous artificial neural networks (ANNs) are trained ...
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    Three Essays on the Non-Labour Market Impacts of Immigration 

    Seah, Kah Cheng Kelvin
    This thesis consists of three stand-alone but related empirical studies. Each of them explores how the presence or the arrival of immigrants to a country affects the non-labour market outcomes of residents in that country. ...
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    Information Processing, Pattern Transmission and Aggregate Consumption Patterns in New Zealand 

    Farhat, Dan
    This study explores the value of information transmission in training het-erogeneous Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models to identify patterns in the growth rate of aggregate per-capita consumption spending in New Zealand. ...
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    Transaction Costs, the Opportunity Cost of Time and Inertia in Charitable Giving 

    Knowles, Stephen; Servátka, Maroš
    We conduct a laboratory experiment to analyze the effect transactions costs and inertia have on charitable giving. We conjecture that transaction costs will have a greater effect on donations if the solicitation is received ...
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