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Privatisation and government spending efficiency: An empirical analysis in Europe 私有化与政府支出效率：欧洲的经验分析
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-18 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12386
Beatriz Cuadrado‐Ballesteros, Noemí Peña‐Miguel
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Variation in labor skills and offshoring across time zones 不同时区劳动技能和离岸外包的差异
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12379
Alaka Shree Prasad, Biswajit Mandal
{"title":"Variation in labor skills and offshoring across time zones","authors":"Alaka Shree Prasad, Biswajit Mandal","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12379","url":null,"abstract":"We check the role of time‐zone difference on offshoring of service tasks when the skill of labors varies between the partner countries. We frame a model where partner countries are located in non‐overlapping time zones, and the skill level of the partner‐country labors is lower. In our model, service production is divided into two sequential stages, and output is a supermodular function of the skill of labors and time. The problem of the producers is to choose between domestic production and offshoring. Domestic production employs high‐skill labors though the time management is inefficient. On the other hand, offshoring to a non‐overlapping time zone helps to work round the clock and reduce the cost, but the lower expertise of skilled labor lowers the output. In such a framework, we check conditions for beneficial offshoring. The condition derived in our analysis provides combinations of skill and time that can make offshoring beneficial. Results show that offshoring across time zones is beneficial even when the complexity of stages of production vary. However, only the relatively less‐critical task is offshored. We further find that availability of domestic low‐skill labor does not benefit the firm, while foreign low‐skill labor may be beneficially utilized through time‐zone exploitation.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140929247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Can the military be a better manager of the economy? 军队能否更好地管理经济？
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12384
Mingchao Sun
{"title":"Can the military be a better manager of the economy?","authors":"Mingchao Sun","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12384","url":null,"abstract":"Pakistan has struggled for a political system suitable for its postindependence development; however, repeated struggles between democracy and dictatorship have slowed Pakistan's economic growth. I quantified the impact of military dictatorship on Pakistan's economy from 1999 to 2008 using synthetic control methods. I found that while the average annual GDP per capita growth grew during the military dictatorship, it was four times lower than synthetic Pakistan's. I conclude that the military did not help Pakistan with its economic malaise. The increase in military expenditure and the prevalence of terrorism due to the military dictatorship may have hindered Pakistan's economic growth.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140929327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chief Executive Officer's national culture and bank risk‐taking behavior: International evidence 首席执行官的国家文化与银行风险承担行为：国际证据
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12378
Quang Duy Luong, Duc Hong Vo, Chi Minh Ho
{"title":"Chief Executive Officer's national culture and bank risk‐taking behavior: International evidence","authors":"Quang Duy Luong, Duc Hong Vo, Chi Minh Ho","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12378","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the effect of the national culture of the chief executive officers (CEOs) on their risk‐taking behavior in managing the banks, leading to banks' instability using a sample of 805 CEOs for 517 commercial banks in 33 countries from 2011 to 2017. Our empirical results confirm that bank risk‐taking behavior is negatively associated with the national culture of the CEOs who score high on the individualistic culture dimension. We also find that bank risk is likely to increase under the management of CEOs coming from high power distance countries. These results have largely remained unchanged across different settings.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140929111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Lockdowns, vaccines, and the economy: How economic perceptions were shaped during the COVID‐19 pandemic† 封锁、疫苗和经济：在 COVID-19 大流行期间如何形成经济观念†。
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12376
Vítor Castro, Rodrigo Martins
{"title":"Lockdowns, vaccines, and the economy: How economic perceptions were shaped during the COVID‐19 pandemic†","authors":"Vítor Castro, Rodrigo Martins","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12376","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the economic confidence indicators' reaction to the environment surrounding the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using Eurostat's monthly data for the economic sentiment in European Union countries, we found that, in the COVID‐19 era, confidence and perceptions about the economy are strongly dominated by factors related to the pandemic, more so by policy measures and the vaccination process than by the direct health impact of the coronavirus. This is found to be prevalent across the multiple dimensions of economic sentiment. Moreover, standard macroeconomic variables seem to play a smaller and more marginal role during this period.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140801062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The welfare effect of release timing of relative performance evaluation under quantity competition and asymmetric costs 数量竞争和成本不对称条件下相对绩效评估发布时间的福利效应
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12374
Jumpei Hamamura, Vinay Ramani
{"title":"The welfare effect of release timing of relative performance evaluation under quantity competition and asymmetric costs","authors":"Jumpei Hamamura, Vinay Ramani","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12374","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the welfare effects of the endogenous decision and release timing of weight placed on the rival's profits under relative performance evaluation with quantity competition and asymmetric marginal costs. We find that when the advantaged firm decides and releases the weight as the leader, it always chooses a negative weight on relative performance evaluation, whereas the disadvantaged firm may choose a positive or negative weight depending on the degree of product substitution. Furthermore, we demonstrate that while all firms prefer to release weights early, this situation does not improve social welfare in several economic environments.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140596065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On the provision of excludable public goods: General taxes or user prices? 关于提供可排除的公共产品：一般税收还是用户价格？
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12373
George Economides, Apostolis Philippopoulos
{"title":"On the provision of excludable public goods: General taxes or user prices?","authors":"George Economides, Apostolis Philippopoulos","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12373","url":null,"abstract":"This paper compares some of the most common ways of financing the provision of publicly provided impure public goods/services in a unified dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous income groups. The focus is on the effects of user prices on individual incentives and how the latter shape aggregate outcomes and distribution. We show that a market‐like mechanism of user prices not only improves individual incentives and enhances aggregate efficiency, but it is also Pareto improving. However, such a mechanism is not beneficial or simply collapses when social externalities are strong, when the government adopts a mixed system that combines user prices with heavy subsidization of user costs, and when there is a minimum amount of the good that everybody needs.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140595735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Informational rents and the excessive entry theorem: The case of hidden action* 信息租金与过度进入定理：隐藏行动的案例*
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12371
Marco de Pinto, Laszlo Goerke, Alberto Palermo
{"title":"Informational rents and the excessive entry theorem: The case of hidden action*","authors":"Marco de Pinto, Laszlo Goerke, Alberto Palermo","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12371","url":null,"abstract":"Entry in a homogeneous Cournot-oligopoly is excessive if there is business-stealing. These findings assume that production costs reduce profits and welfare equally. If firms pay informational rents due to frictions in the employer–employee relationship, production costs partly reflect transfers, which do not alter welfare directly. We investigate the excessive entry theorem in the presence of rents. We find that informational rents can invalidate the theorem. Rents reduce profits and deter entry into the market equilibrium, while the socially optimal number of firms is not affected directly. The rent effect becomes stronger the lower the number of firms and can overcompensate the business-stealing externality. As an example, we model a hidden action problem in which employees have an informational advantage after signing the contract with the firm. Insufficient entry occurs if entry costs are sufficiently high because they lower the number of firms and raise informational rents.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139057373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Temperature and intimate partner violence 温度与亲密伴侣暴力
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12365
My Nguyen
{"title":"Temperature and intimate partner violence","authors":"My Nguyen","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12365","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the relationship between temperature and intimate partner violence against women in 34 developing countries. Exploiting the variation in average temperatures across women's residential locations within the 12 months prior to the survey date, we detect the positive association between temperature and women's exposure to intimate partner violence. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in temperature (equivalent to an increase of 5.94°C) raises the risks of intimate partner violence (physical, emotional, and sexual violence) at both the extensive and intensive margins. These impacts could be attributable to the loss of control (proxied by alcohol use) and worse labor market outcomes. Our heterogeneity analyses further show that women from rural areas, those from poor households, those having low education, and those living with low‐educated partners are particularly vulnerable to the damaging consequences of temperature hikes.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139199174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Forms of fiscal governance in the Euro Area – An update 欧元区财政治理的形式——最新进展
IF 1.1 4区 经济学
Scottish Journal of Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12370
Moira Catania, Mark Baimbridge, Ioannis Litsios
{"title":"Forms of fiscal governance in the Euro Area – An update","authors":"Moira Catania, Mark Baimbridge, Ioannis Litsios","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12370","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the common Euro Area (EA) requirements, we find notable differences in the quality of fiscal governance among the 19 member states. Moreover, characteristics of the delegation approach, which have been largely ignored in the EA fiscal governance framework, remain important in various member states. Using a two-way fixed effects panel data model for the EA countries during 2006–2018, we find that the delegation approach can be effective to improve the fiscal position. On the other hand, the imposition of centrally mandated common rules-based reforms has not taken into account the national political, social and institutional setting, and this may have also affected their effectiveness to achieve fiscal discipline. Our findings thus suggest a reconsideration of the one-size-fits-all, rules-based approach to fiscal governance in the EA.","PeriodicalId":47171,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Political Economy","volume":"5 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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