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The Dynamics of Political Support for Reform in Economies in Transition

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper considers a simple model of economic transition to analyse the dynamics of preferences over economic policy … the early stages of the transition, the private sector expands at a rate that is lower than the rate at which the state … subsidy to the state sector, which has the effect of slowing down the transition. The analysis focuses on the dynamic …

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Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?

Kaplan, Ethan; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998. The fact that Korea and Thailand recovered in parallel has been interpreted as suggesting that capital controls did not play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia’s...

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Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Sceptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence

Rodríguez, Francisco; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...

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When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, World Views, and Policy Innovations

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The contemporary approach to political economy is built around vested interests -- elites, lobbies, and rent-seeking groups which get their way at the expense of the general public. The role of ideas in shaping those interests is typically ignored or downplayed. Yet each of the three components...

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What does the Political Economy Literature on Trade Policy (Not) Tell Us That We Ought to Know?

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Three questions lie at the core of the large and distinguished literature on the political economy of trade policy. First, why is international trade not free? Second, why are trade policies universally biased against (rather than in favour of) trade? Third, what are the determinants of the...

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