Applied Economics: Recent submissions
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The definition of Indebtedness and the consequent imperilling of the Pari Passu, Negative Pledge and Cross-Default Clauses in sovereign debt instruments
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-04-16)Sovereign debt crises are unavoidable, they occur and more often than expected.1 Recent events have also demonstrated that these crises, which were historically associated only with developing countries can now affect ... -
Rationalizability of menu preferences
(Springer Verlag, 2018-05-18)The class of preferences over opportunity sets ("menus") rationalizable by underlying preferences over the alternatives is characterized for the general case in which the dataset is unrestricted. In particular, both the ... -
Are Mass Media and ICTs Associated with Inequality and Poverty?
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Motivate and Select: Relational Contracts with Persistent Types
(Wiley: 24 months, 2017-03-07)We develop a model of relational contracts with moral hazard and asymmetric persistent information about an employee's type. We find that the form of the optimal contract depends on the job characteristics and the distribution ... -
Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-11-08)It is well known that unless worker-firm match quality is controlled for, reduced-form estimates of returns to firm tenure will be biased. In this paper, we show that there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely, ... -
An Environmental Social Marketing Intervention in Cultural Heritage Tourism: a Realist Evaluation
(Channel View Publications, 2017-03-10)Following Pawson and Tilley's principles of realist evaluation and the context–mechanism–outcome (CMO) framework, this paper conducts a process evaluation of an environmental social marketing intervention in a heritage ... -
The Global Value Chain in Canned Tuna, the International Trade Regime and Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14
This paper examines the interaction of the international fisheries trade regime, global value chains in tuna and socio-economic development in low-income Commonwealth countries. The first section sketches the long historical ... -
Tariff Escalation and Preferences in International Fish Production and Trade
(2015)This paper reviews recent literature on the effects of tariff liberalisation on wild caught fish product production structures, development outcomes, and fish stocks. Using the case of canned tuna, the report shows that ...