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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA
Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...
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Preventing competition because of “solidarity”: Rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain
Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005
Spain is the only large European country in which airport management is strictly centralized and publicly owned. This peculiar institutional setting prevents competition among Spanish airports, and policy makers and bureaucrats in charge of the system regularly justify it on grounds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125961
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The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax
Buckley, Francis; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999
There is a secret paradox at the heart of social contract theories. Such theories assume that, because personal security and private property are at risk in a state of nature, subjects will agree to grant Leviathan a monopoly of violence. But what is to prevent Leviathan from turning on his...
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The Effects of Congressional Appropriation Committee Membership on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding to Universities
Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001
This paper examines the impact of congressional representation of a university through district representation or an alma mater affiliation on the distribution of research funding to research and doctoral universities in the United States. Because appropriations are allocated to agencies on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076595
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Settlement finality as a public good in large-value payment systems
Humphrey, David; Pages, Henri - EconWPA - 2005
Target is a real time gross settlement (RTGS) large value payment network operated by European central banks that eliminates systemic risk. Euro1 is a privately operated delayed net settlement (DNS) network that reduces substantially systemic risk but does not eliminate it. This difference makes...
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Curbing Excess Sprawl with Congestion Tolls and Urban Boundaries
Anas, Alex; Rhee, Hyok-Joo - EconWPA - 2004
Using an urban land use model in which jobs and residences are spatially dispersed and mixed, we treat the general equilibrium of land, labor and product markets and the trade-off between labor supply, commuting and discretionary travel. We show that the decentralization of population and of...
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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica
Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004
investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization … documented phenomenon both in this study and in the cross-country literature on privatization; e.g. political ends in … privatization, influence in appointments, golden shares) as the most visible part of such collusion. Liberalization and multi …
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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways
Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001
A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT : A POLITICO - FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2004
Do Financial accounting practices as per the political setup and their administrative strategies, pose problems to the pace of Socio-economic development of any nation ? This paper addresses this question with a preview to the dawn of human civilizations on earth, and mathematically cumulating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556918
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT : A POLITICO - FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Subramaniam, Viswanatha Sankara Rama - EconWPA - 2004
Do Financial accounting practices as per the political setup and their administrative strategies, pose problems to the pace of Socio-economic development of any nation ? This paper addresses this question with a preview to the dawn of human civilizations on earth, and mathematically cumulating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560985