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Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

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Political Regime Change, Economic Reform and Growth Accelerations

Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2007

Using an improved definition and indicator of growth accelerations, we examine whether political regimes, regime changes, and economic reform are related to growth accelerations. Our results show that economic growth accelerations are preceded by economic reforms. Furthermore, we find that...

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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform’s initial success having a negative impact...

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Policy Persistence and Rent Extraction

Friedrich, Silke - CESifo - 2013

The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...

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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013

decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment … through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. …

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Battle for Climate and Scarcity Rents: Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case

Kagan, Mark; Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Withagen, Cees A. - CESifo - 2014

The nature of oil demand influences the oil extraction rate and hence has implications for both the timing of oil exhaustion and optimal climate policy. We analyse what role oil demand specification plays in strategic interactions b between an oil-importing country producing final goods and...

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...

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Are User Fees Really Regressive?

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - CESifo - 2012

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

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Market Failures and the Under-Provision of Training

Brunello, Giorgio; Paola, Maria De - CESifo - 2004

This paper reviews both the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical evidence in support of the under-provision of training. While there is little if any evidence in support of under-provision because of liquidity constraints to the demand side of the market, there is evidence that employers...

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Efficiency and Equity of European Education and Training Policies

Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2006

to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to educational investments tend to decrease over the life cycle. Moreover … life cycle. This creates complementarities between efficiency and equity at early stages and trade-offs at late stages. The … paper goes on to discuss specific policies for efficiency and equity at each educational stage, ranging from early childhood …

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