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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168626
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Response to a review of voting theory for democracy, in the light of the economic crisis and the role of mathematicians
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
welfare theory and since then mathematicians have been damaging democracy. My book Voting Theory for Democracy (VTFD) tries to …Economic theory needs a stronger defence against unwise application of mathematics. Mathematicians are trained for … pupils and students, in finance by neglecting real world risks that contribute to a world crisis, or in voting theory where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367967
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Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and the distinction between Voting and Deciding
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem in social choice finds different interpretations. Bordes-Tideman (1991) and Tideman (2006) suggest that collective rationality would be an illusion and that practical voting procedures do not tend to require completeness or transitivity. Colignatus (1990 and 2011)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368469
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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
that a jus sanguinis origin is a factor of resistance to change, that a high degree of democracy promotes the adoption of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763607
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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762361
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216756
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529151
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High Noon at the EU corral. An economic plan for Europe, September 2011
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The 2007+ credit crunch and economic crisis put European governments in severe debt, with talk about a Greek partial default. It also put the European banks into a zombie condition, while under Basel III the capital requirement rises from 8% to 10.5% (which requirement does not cover public debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294940
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325443
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Conditions for turning the ex ante risk premium into an ex post redemption for EU government debt
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Basel III classifies government debt as risk free while actual interest rates in the European Union (EU) show large differences not only because of liquidity but mainly because of the risk of default, as also reflected in credit default swaps. Curiously such debt defaults may not happen so that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372590