In three experiments using rats as subjects, we investigated the degree to which a conditioned flavor aversion transfers from one context to another. Experiment 1, using a one-trial conditioning procedure, found no effect of a change of context on a conditioned aversion. Experiment 2 employed a multitrial procedure and demonstrated that a conditioned aversion was extinguished more rapidly after...

to commit to transparent behavior in a competitive information beauty contest managed by a corrupt agent. In his contract, the agent has some discretion to favor a firm in commitment to transparency is never incentive compatible, but conditional commitment mechanism can eliminate discretion is strong and the market's profitability is small that a commit. In that situation, the high quality firm...

This article looks at how Europe matters in the development of policies against domestic violence, a gender equality field outside the core European Union (EU) conditionality criteria. By analyzing the concrete workings and uses of Europe's domestic violence policy-making in five Central and Eastern European countries, it identifies three mechanisms of Europeanization in the field and shows how...

Interspecific interactions are traditionally displayed in a grid in which each interaction is placed according to its outcome (positive, negative or neutral) for each partner. However, recent field studies consistently find the costs and benefits that determine net effects to vary greatly in both space and time, inevitably causing outcomes within most interactions to vary as well. Interactions ...

— We empirically analyze the effect of International Monetary Fund (IMF) involvement on the risk of entering a currency crisis and, respectively, the outcome of such a crisis. Specifically, we investigate whether countries with previous IMF intervention are more likely to experience currency crises. In a second step, we analyze the IMF’s impact on a country’s decision to adjust the exchange rat...

The debt crisis, and the IMF-sponsored stabilization programs enacted in response to it, have resulted in an excessive degree of ansterity for several of the debtor countries. The current creditor strategy, it is argued, is not sustainable over the long term unless the debtor countries are allowed to grow. The author advocates a more generous treatment of debt servicing requirements, in the for...

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries that they represent. We would like to thank Pablo Zoido-Lobaton for excellent research assistance. Financial support from the World Bank's Research Support Budget (RPO 681-70) is grateful...

Advanced welfare states have placed more conditions on the receipt of social protection. This study examines link between strictness unemployment benefit conditionality and immigration. Immigration might increase this through an anti-solidarity effect because it decreases perceived deservingness unemployed via a fiscal exposure where governments attempt to limit negative financial consequences ...