of juror political party on verdicts, and (iii) an empirical examination of the role of peer effects in jury decision …

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious … part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also uncover a new fact: in both international and cross-state U.S. data, there … is a significant and robust negative relationship between religiosity and patents per capita. The political-economy model …

not have large stakes in the policy outcome; effective decisions over policies require taking into account policy …Policies are typically chosen by politicians and bureaucrats. This Paper investigates the criteria that should lead a … society to allocate policy tasks to elected policymakers (politicians) or non-elected bureaucrats. Politicians are preferable …

We investigate the effect of electoral rules and political regimes on fiscal policy outcomes in a panel of 61 … democracies from 1960 onwards. In presidential regimes, the size of government is smaller and less responsive to income shocks …

We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequality and political accountability undermine … from raising capital. They succeed because they can promise larger political contributions than the entrants due to the … unequal, and the political system becomes more accountable. Consistent with these predictions, in a cross-section of 38 …

This paper uses a large panel of financial flow data from banks to assess how institutions affect international lending … institutional improvements are followed by significant increases in international finance. Second, cross-sectional models also show … correlate of international bank inflows. The results thus suggest that institutional underdeveloped can explain a significant …