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Both energy and the environment are inputs into production, influencing the economy and the overall welfare of the … population. While the economy itself has been a central focus of economic history from its inception, energy and the environment … some thoughts regarding opportunities for further research in energy and the environment …
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A classic problem in public finance is the over-expenditure of local governments in expectation of a bailout from higher-level administrations. While monitoring could mitigate agency problems, it can itself be rendered ineffective if auditors are corruptible. I evaluate whether limiting...
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We study how the organization of the state evolves over the process of development of a nation, using a new dataset on the internal organization of the U.S. federal bureaucracy over 1817-1905. First, we show a series of facts, describing how the size of the state, its presence across the...
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Formal rules within organizations are pervasive, but may be interpreted and implemented differently by actors within the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the environmental regulator in an Indian state, by giving...
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This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find that city council dismissals (CCDs) increase employment, the number of...
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Concerns have been raised about the "demise of democracy", possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using …
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A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences …
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. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating … democracy and capitalism--is to move to a governance structure based on impersonal rules that apply in the same way to everyone …
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which democracy and media freedom have been eroded in Türkiye and their usefulness in dealing with natural disasters and … democracy and media freedom have significant effects on beliefs and increase the likelihood of voting for the opposition by … misperceived beliefs about democracy and media freedom in Türkiye. The evidence suggests that at least part of the support for …
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