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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Campos, Nauro F.; Gassebner, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700916
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543258
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683656
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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021642
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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566744
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The Political Economy of Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565206
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The Interaction of Tax Exemptions and Individual Tax Reform Preferences
Barbaro, Salvatore; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The individual voting behavior on the abolishment of single income-tax exemptions crucially depends on how strongly agents are affected by other deduction possibilities that are not at stake in the reform plans of the government. The interactions depend (i) on the shape of the tax schedule, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703311
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Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute
Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...
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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption
Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603512
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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705561