Научные публикации

Статья «Language Learning and Communicative Benefits» default.published в Handbook of Economics of Languages (2016), eds. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 212-230.

Авторы: Эфтимос Афанасио, J. Moreno-Ternero, V. Ginsburgh

Аннотация

Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies? This Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine the links and tensions between economics and language to find the delicate balance between monetary benefits and psychological costs of linguistic dynamics

Статья «Groves Mechanisms and Communicaton Externalies» default.published в Review of Economic Design (2016), Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 1-37.

Авторы: Эфтимос Афанасио, Dey S., Valletta G.

Аннотация

We put forward a model of private goods with externalities. Agents derive benefit from communicating with each other. In order to communicate they need to operate on a common platform. Adopting new platforms is costly. We first provide an algorithm that determines the efficient outcome. Then we prove that no individually rational and feasible Groves mechanism exists. We provide sufficient conditions that determine when an individually rational Groves mechanism runs a deficit and we characterize the individually rational Groves mechanism that minimizes such deficit whenever it occurs. Moreover, for 2-agent economies, we single out the only feasible and symmetrical Groves mechanism that is not Pareto dominated by another strategy-proof, feasible and symmetrical mechanism.

Статья «Индексы разнообразия муниципалитетов» default.published в Вестник Воронежского государственного университета. Серия «Экономика и управление». 2016. № 1. С. 71-78.

Авторы: , Денис Давыдов, Лаврененко И.И.

Аннотация

В статье затрагиваются аспекты взаимного влияния социально-экономических и административно-управленческих процессов. На примере отдельных регионов Российской Федерации изучено влияние типов и форм управления муниципальными образованиями на их социально-экономическое развитие, а также влияние разнообразия типов муниципальных образований на валовой региональный продукт.

Статья «Electoral Rules and Political Selection: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan» default.published в Review of Economic Studies, 83(3): 932-968.

Авторы: Рубен Ениколопов, Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia, Georgy Egorov

Аннотация

Voters commonly face a choice between competent candidates and those with policy preferences similar to their own. This article explores how electoral rules, such as district magnitude, mediate this trade-off and affect the composition of representative bodies and the quality of policy outcomes. We show formally that anticipation of bargaining over policy causes voters in elections with multiple single-member districts to prefer candidates with polarized policy positions over more competent candidates. Results from a unique field experiment in Afghanistan are consistent with these predictions. Specifically, representatives selected by elections with a single multi-member district are better educated and exhibit less extreme policy preferences.

Статья «Cultural Diversity and The Future of International Relations» default.accepted в International Studies Review (2015), Vol. 17(4), pp. 719-721.

Автор: Гюнеш Гокмен

Аннотация

Civilizations and World Order contributes to the literature on cross-cultural international relations and geopolitics in the post–Cold War era. It raises interesting and timely questions on the role of various civilizations in the current and future world order, and challenges the reader to leave the mono-civilizational EuroWestcentric view and think in terms of a multicivilizational perspective. The authors of the book argue that, in the aftermath of the Cold War, a unipolar world system has emerged, and the Western powers, convinced of their civilizational superiority, embraced a hegemonic approach to establishing a new world order by imposing the Western civilization onto other civilizations. They further assert that, in the absence of a balance of power, certain political camps were quick to declare a civilizational victory for the West (Fukuyama 1992) or else they embarked on finding new enemies to replace the Soviet Union (Huntington 1993). They suggest that these approaches cannot sustain a peaceful world order without paying due respect to different civilizations, and the way forward is a multicultural world system in which each civilization participates equally.

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