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This study examines how quality of political institutions affects the distribution of government budget and how development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become especially important due to recent international sanctions,...
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After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key importance of institutions for development. Other authors...
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Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to …
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statistical framework, in a panel of 160 countries, we focus on 14 episodes of transition from democracy to autocracy. We find …
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quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …
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of national income per capita and democracy may not be positively correlated. The model is also useful for understanding …
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We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …
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the period from 1820 to 1938. We find strong support for the ‘threat of revolution theory’. We also find some evidence … theory’, receive little support. …
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Natural resource discoveries, even when fairly modest in terms of the revenues they are expected to generate, can have significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no different from other oil-rich countries. In five...
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The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision of public services. However,...
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