(May 2015) 5 papers... in 5 minutes!
- Replacing churches and mason lodges ? Tax exemptions and rural development - Luc Behaghel, Adrien Lorenceau and Simon Quantin. Rural Revitalisation Zones (ZRR - Les Zones de revitalisation rurale) are to the countryside what Urban Tax-Free Zones (ZFU - Zones franches urbaines) are to cities: in order to restore attractiveness to rural areas that are languishing, a tax credit programme offers exemption from employee contributions and taxes to firms who establish themselves there...
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- On the regularity of smooth production economies with externalities: Competitive equilibrium à la Nash - Elena del Mercato and Vincenzo Platino. A central economic problem concerns the interaction between the behaviour of agents and the situations in which agents’ decisions affect the choices of others, that is to say, externalities. Consumption externalities have been broadly identified in the literature on networks and interdependent preferences...
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- Military Service and Human Capital Accumulation : Evidence from Colonial Punjab Oliver Vanden Eynde. The contribution of the Indian Army to WWI is often overlooked, but there is probably no better illustration of World War I’s global dimension than its victims in the colonial armies. Raw figures help to appreciate the enormous scale of India’s war-time recruitment. It is easy to understand why the British Government of the time was keen to rely on the Indian Army...
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- Oil, Governance and the (Mis) Allocation of Talent in Developing Countries Christian Ebeke, Luc Désiré Omgba and Rachid Laajaj. The “curse” of natural resources refers to a paradox observed since the 1990s: countries rich in natural resources have an average growth rate lower than those that are not. Ebeke, Omgba and Laajaj offer new ways to understand this apparent paradox through observing the role of oil resources in the specialisation choices of tertiary students...
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- Social- and Self-Image Concerns in Fair-Trade Consumption : Evidence from Experimental Auctions for Chocolate - Sabrina Teyssier, Fabrice Etilé and Pierre Combris. The development of fair trade is a way to improve the living conditions of producers, especially in developing countries. The success of fair trade sectors depends crucially on the readiness of consumers to pay for the fairness. From this perspective, Teyssier, Etilé and Combris investigate the effect of social interactions...