(March 2019) 5 papers... in 5 minutes
How to organize evaluation voting?
Antonin Macé
The recent « yellow vest » movement has revealed a crisis of political representation. Among the solutions proposed during the Great National Debate are proposals for more direct democracy, but also for changing the electoral mechanisms we use to select our representatives. ...
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How Do Central Bank Governors Matter? Regulation and the Financial Sector.
Prachi Mishra and Ariell Reshef
Central bank governors (presidents or chairmen) play a pivotal role in decisions about economic policy, even when they are part of a board or committee, and even when central banks are not fully independent...
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Reducing crime over the long term: police or family? That is the policy question.
Emeline Bezin, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou
Much criminological research reveals a link between family structure and delinquency: children in divided or single-parent families are more likely to engage in delinquent activities than those in two-parent families....
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Market power and volatility in the air transport industry
Alexandra Belova, Philippe Gagnepain and Stéphane Gauthier
The popular belief that consumers benefit from competition through lower prices rests on the assumption that the market reaches equilibrium. When firms have market power, competition regulators usually refer to the Nash equilibrium...
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The effect of language training on immigrants’ economic integration: Empirical evidence from France
Alexia Lochmann, Hillel Rapoport and Biagio Speciale
Immigrants often represent the most vulnerable fringe of the labor force and France is no exception. In the mid-2000s, the French government introduced a series of policies aimed at improving the economic and social integration of immigrants and at providing immigrants the dignity guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
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