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Scottish Economic Society
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The Scottish Economic Society is dedicated to advancing the study and teaching of economics, inspired by the rich Scottish tradition of political economy established by Adam Smith. https://scotecon.org/
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · 11d
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Electricity Use of Automation or How to Tax Robots?
While automation technologies replace workers in ever more tasks, robots, 3D-printers, and AI require substantial amounts of electricity. How are automation technologies affected by the price of elec...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · 15d
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Industrial Structure and Economic Performance: Macroeconomic Implications of Consumption and Leisure Externalities
This paper develops a monopolistic competition macroeconomic model with consumption externalities and leisure externalities, and uses it to discuss economic performance under both vertical separation...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Sep 6
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Vol. 72, No. 4, September 2025 issue is officially out. #EconSky
Scottish Journal of Political Economy: Vol 72, No 4
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Sep 4
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Debating the Bundeswehr
We use Natural Language Processing methods to analyze the part of the debates in the Bundestag, the German parliament, about the German military (Bundeswehr). Estimated local projections show that an...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Sep 3
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The Effect of Physical Disability on Employment
The relationship between physical disability and employment is explored using microdata for older working-age women in the 2016 Irish Census of Population and historical data on the incidence of infe....
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Aug 8
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Political Geography and Stock Market Volatility: The Role of Political Alignment Across Sentiment Regimes
We study the nexus between political geography and stock market volatility by examining the interrelation between political geography and the predictive relation between the state- and aggregate-leve...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jul 31
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jul 29
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Elite Capture or Exclusion? Insights From China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy
This paper investigates the role of political elites in China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) program using data from the 2017 Thousand-Person Hundred-Village (TPHV) survey. The findings reveal ...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jul 25
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jul 18
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Mandatory Corporate Responsibility Regulation, Geopolitical Risk, and Firm Performance: Evidence From India
This study investigates whether a mandated requirement to spend on social welfare activities amplifies the impact of Geopolitical Risk (GPR) on firm performance. To explore this question, we exploit ...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jul 18
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Corruption Kills: Global Evidence From Natural Disasters
This study examines the relationship between corruption and natural disaster-related fatalities using panel data from 135 countries spanning the period 1980 to 2020. The empirical analysis reveals ro...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Old‐Age Saving in a Welfare State
We address the reasons why retirees continue saving well into old age. We contribute to the literature by studying the saving behavior of retirees in a country where health care is free of charge as ...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Promise (Un)Kept? Fintech and Financial Inclusion
The emergence of financial technologies—fintech—has become an engine of change, promising to expand access to financial services and give a boost to financial inclusion. The ownership of accounts in ...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Uncertainty and the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Case Study for Disaggregated Industrial Production
Employing principal component analysis (PCA), we build novel economic uncertainty indices for Turkey. Economic/business uncertainty and sectoral uncertainty indices sensitively detect important econo...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Privatization Neutrality Theorem in Free Entry Markets With Efficiency Gap
This paper explores the effects of privatization and subsidization policies in a mixed oligopoly, consisting of one semipublic firm and multiple private firms, where partial privatization affects tec...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Innovation and Government Bureaucracy
Using a panel of 42 countries over the period 2004–2018, we investigate the extent to which better bureaucratic performance influences innovation outcomes. We first find that a one-unit improvement i...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
The Minimum Wage: An Effective Means to Regain the Electorate's Confidence?
We analyse the policy feedback on the minimum wage introduction in Germany, which was the core promise of the Social Democrats in the 2013 elections. Overall, there is no positive policy effect on th...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
An international analysis of the trend five‐year government bond rate
Employing an unobserved components stochastic volatility model, we estimate the trend 5-year government bond rate in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Our...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Measuring Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Review
Measurement is a key challenge in studying sexual harassment. People's understanding of harassment varies across cultural and legal contexts, and there are many factors contributing to under-reportin...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
SJPE Gender Norms Special Issue Introduction
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Leadership in Scholarship: Editors' Appointments and Scientific Narrative
Academic journals disseminate new knowledge and therefore can influence the direction and composition of ongoing research by choosing what to publish. We study the change in the topic structure of pa...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Volunteerism, redistribution and gender
We explore whether, and to what extent, individuals respond to increased transitory or permanent inequality in regional income by offering more unpaid voluntary work. We find strong evidence that wom...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
Cultural group diversity and team performance: The importance of international employees
In the ongoing debates regarding performance disparities between homogeneous and heterogeneous teams, we examine team dynamics within the National Basketball Association to provide insights into this...
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 29
The @scot-j-pol-econ.bsky.social Vol. 72, No. 3, July 2025 issue is officially out. This is a special issue on gender norms #EconSky
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · Jun 28
Floods and Child Vulnerability: Impacts on Growth, Nutrition, and Health Among Children of Less‐Educated Mothers
This study investigates the short-run impacts of recent flood exposure on child growth, nutrition, and health outcomes, focusing specifically on children born to mothers with low levels of education....
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