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Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - CESifo - 2015

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …

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Advertising, Competition and Entry in Media Industries

Crampes, Claude; Haritchabalet, Carole; Jullien, Bruno - CESifo - 2005

This paper presents a model of media competition with free entry when media operators are financed both from … antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a quantity to advertisers. When consumers dislike advertising …, media operators are better off setting an advertising price than an advertising quantity. We establish a relationship …

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Size and Development of Tax Evasion in 38 OECD Countries: What do we (not) know?

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2012

For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...

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Beyond the Veil of Ignorance: The Influence of Direct Democracy on the Shadow Economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - CESifo - 2012

In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...

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The Effect of Direct Democracy on Income Redistribution: Evidence for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Fischer, Justina A.V.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2006

There is an intensive dispute in political economics about the impact of institutions on income redistribution. While the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on redistribution has attracted much less attention....

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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects: A Plethora of Systematic Biases

Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010

There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...

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Political Stability and Fiscal Policy - Time Series Evidence for the Swiss Federal Level since 1849

Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - CESifo - 2009

This paper explores the role of political stability on fiscal policy choices in a time-series ana-lysis over 158 years on the Swiss federal level. We argue that the fiscal-commons problem of public finances is affected by the time-horizon of a finance minister. Arguably, the incentives for an...

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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies

Bernecker, Andreas - CESifo - 2014

Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...

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Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - CESifo - 2013

This paper presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists. Because of its flexibility,...

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The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2012

We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...

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