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The Economic Effects of Direct Democracy - A First Global Assessment

Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan - 2021

This is the first study that assesses the economic effects of direct democratic institutions on a cross country basis. Its results are based on up to six new measures produced to reflect the legislative basis for using direct democratic institutions as well as their factual use. In addition, a...

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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility?: testing the effects of delegating powers

Dreher, Axel; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264350

Testing slope homogeneity in large panels

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2005

This paper proposes a modified version of Swamy's test of slope homogeneity for panel data models where the cross section dimension (N) could be large relative to the time series dimension (T). The proposed test exploits the cross section dispersion of individual slopes weighted by their...

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General diagnostic tests for cross section dependence in panels

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2004

This paper proposes simple tests of error cross section dependence which are applicable to a variety of panel data models, including stationary and unit root dynamic heterogeneous panels with short T and large N. The proposed tests are based on average of pair-wise correlation coefficients of...

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Diagnostic tests of cross section independence for nonlinear panel data models

Hsiao, Cheng; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Pick, Andreas - 2007

In this paper we discuss tests for residual cross section dependence in nonlinear panel data models. The tests are based on average pair-wise residual correlation coefficients. In nonlinear models, the definition of the residual is ambiguous and we consider two approaches: deviations of the...

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Econometric analysis of high dimensional VARs featuring a dominant unit

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2010

This paper extends the analysis of infinite dimensional vector autoregressive models (IVAR) proposed in Chudik and Pesaran (2010) to the case where one of the variables or the cross section units in the IVAR model is dominant or pervasive. This extension is not straightforward and involves...

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What if the UK had joined the euro in 1999? : An empirical evaluation using a Global VAR

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; Smith, Ron P. - 2005

macroeconometric models. As an application we consider UK entry to the euro. Entry involves a long-term commitment to restrict UK … nominal exchange rates and interest rates to be the same as those of the euro area. We derive conditional probability … distributions for the difference between the future realisations of variables of interest (e.g UK and euro area output and prices …

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The economic effects of constitutions: replicating - and extending - Persson and Tabellini

Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan; Wolf, Carsten - 2007

Persson and Tabellini (2003) show that presidential regimes and majoritarian election systems have important effects on fiscal policy, government effectiveness and productivity. Here, their dataset is extended in a number of ways: the number of countries included is increased from 85 to up to...

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The economic effects of direct democracy: a first global assessment

Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan - 2007

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The relevance of judicial procedure for economic growth

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

It has been argued that procedural formalism undermines economic efficiency by fostering rent-seeking and corruption. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the predictability of court decisions, which leads to more...

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