October 2020
Are football coaches teddy bears?
Luc Arrondel*, Richard Duhautois, Cédric Zimmer
The impact of the individual leadership of a CEO on the performance of a company has been widely discussed in the literature, but the effect remains indefinite: very strong for some companies, negligible for others. In football, the analysis of “leadership” involves the impact of a manager on his team’s results. Here again, there are mixed views. Kuper and Szymanski (1) state that managers have very little influence on the performance of their players. “They seem to add so little value that is tempting to think"…
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/2SVdxL0
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Policy measures and social network changes
Margherita Comola*, Silvia Prina
The importance of social interactions is currently an active field of study in economics. But in which circumstances we form and sever these links? In reality social connections are not set in stone, but they rewire following the flow of one’s life and the institutional landscape. This leaves us with an important question: when we evaluate policy measures, shouldn’t we also take into account their interaction with social networks? In this article M. Comola and S. Prina explore the unexpected policy consequences of social network changes…
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/351WcFT
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How success and political opinions shape redistribution
Vincent Berthet, Camille Dorin, Jean-Christophe Vergnaud, Vincent de Gardelle*
Individual preferences in redistribution is a topic of great interest for economics and political science scholars. Two main factors determine these preferences: personal interest and equity. Fairly obviously, economic interests push wealthy individuals to tend to prefer less redistribution and poor ones to tend to prefer more redistribution. In addition, the degree of redistribution that a society chooses also reflects beliefs about the causes of wealth inequalities: if we think that these inequalities are linked to chance…
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/2ICiBSZ
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The carbon curse in developed countries
Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline*, Mouez Fodha*, Yassine Kirat
How can we fight climate change? The effectiveness of the Paris Accord has been thrown into doubt by protectionist measures; these doubts are exacerbated by the economic and health crises and they render the prospect of an ambitious carbon tariff ever more remote. To these explanations for the failure of environmental policies, Chiroleu-Assouline, Fodha and Kirat add the abundance of natural resources, responsible for the carbon curse. Countries rich in natural fossil and mineral resources emit more CO2 per unit…
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/3iVGVeQ
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Muscle drain, Brain Gain: the long-term effects of military recruitment in Nepal
François Libois*, Ritu Muralidharan, Juni Singh, Oliver Vanden Eynde*
After the Gurkha War (1814-1816), British colonizers were so impressed by the fighting skills of their former enemies that the East India Company started to recruit Gurkha soldiers from Nepal – even if Nepal was never colonized. Hailing from the so-called Gurkha castes in small rural villages, the Gurkhas first served in the colonial Indian armies. After 1947, they continued to be recruited by the Indian and British armies. Gurkha soldiers maintained strong ties to their home communities, and would typically return to Nepal after retirement…
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