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Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Latin America

Alesina, Alberto - 1996

In this paper we collect detailed information on the budget institutions of Latin American countries. We classify these institutions on a `hierarchical'/'collegial' scale, as a function of their transparency and the existence of legislative constraints on the deficit. We then show that...

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Economic Crisis, General Laws, and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transformation of American Political Economy

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2020

Before the middle of the nineteenth century most laws enacted in the United States were special bills that granted favors to specific individuals, groups, or localities. This fundamentally inegalitarian system provided political elites with important tools that they could use to reward...

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Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State : Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900

Bloch, Ruth H. - 2015

The freedom of citizens to form voluntary associations has long been viewed as an essential ingredient of modern civil society. Our chapter revises the standard Tocquevillian account of associational freedom in the early United States by accentuating the role of state courts and legislatures in...

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Small Countries in Monetary Unions : A Two-Tier Model

de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 1985

In a previous analysis of the West African Monetary Union, Macedo(1985a), size is taken to be a major structural characteristic of a country in the sense that large countries are not affected by disturbances originating in small countries but small countries are affected by large countries'...

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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions

Bagwell, Kyle - 1999

labor and environmental policies, and would lead to a significant loss of sovereignty for national governments. In this … labor and environmental standards, and that with relatively modest changes that grant governments more sovereignty, not less …

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National Sovereignty in an Interdependent World

Bagwell, Kyle - 2004

national sovereignty. In this paper, we propose answers to these two questions. We do so by first developing formal definitions … of national sovereignty that capture features of sovereignty emphasized in the political science literature. We then … utilize these definitions to describe the degree and nature of national sovereignty possessed by governments in a benchmark …

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"Make Us a King" : Anarchy, Predation, and the State

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1997

In order to enforce a collective choice to allocate resource to guarding against predators producers must subject themselves to the state's sovereign power to tax and to spend. But these sovereign powers in hand the state can exploit the producers by taxing and spending for its" own purposes....

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Perceived FOMC : The Making of Hawks, Doves and Swingers

Bordo, Michael D. - 2018

Narrative records in US newspapers reveal that about 70 percent of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members who served during the last 55 years are perceived to have had persistent policy preferences over time, as either inflation-fighting hawks or growth-promoting doves. The rest are...

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Currency crises

Krugman, Paul R. (ed.) - 2000

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The evolution of retirement : an American economic history, 1880 - 1990

Costa, Dora L. - 1998

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