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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration

Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes …, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and …

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A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration : Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities

Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization. We propose basic axioms (decomposability and...

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Negotiating Constitution for Political Unions

Kumar, Vikas - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. We introduce negotiated, contested, and time-consistent contested constitutions to address various classes of merger problems. Merger agreement is shown to be path dependent and, in some cases,...

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Policy Reforms and Institutional Weaknesses : Closing the Gap

Llanto, Gilberto; Gonzalez, Eduardo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

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From Crisis to Recovery in Asia : Strategies, Achievements and Lessons

Sangsubhan, Kanit; Vorawangso, Cholachit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper reviews and highlights lessons from the stabilisation and reform programme that Thailand, Malaysia and Korea implemented in response to the 1997 crisis. The three countries rapid recovery from a deep economic downturn in 1998 and their reduced vulnerability to balance of payments...

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Institutional Changes for Private Sector Development in Vietnam : Experience and Lessons

Thanh, Vo Tri; Anh, Nguyen Tu - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

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Post-Crisis Investment Performance of ASEAN Countries : Impact of FDI

Thangavelu, Shandre M; Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

The paper studies the post-Asian crisis investment performance of crisis affected countries in ASEAN. The empirical evidence clearly indicates that the ASEAN and East Asian countries are emerging from the Asian crisis with strong output growth. As expected, the output growth seems to be driven...

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Microeconomic Policy Reform : Strategy for Regional Cooperation

Soesastro, Hadi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

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Financial Sector Reform : Longer-run policy responses to the Asian Crisis

Davis, Kevin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

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The Policy Development Process and the Agenda for Effective Institutions : The Philippines

Llanto, Gilberto Montecer - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

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