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Ghana; Economic Development in a Democratic Environment

Harnack, Joachim; Leite, Sérgio Pereira.; Fabrizio, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

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Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union

Grossman, Hershel I.; Gershenson, Dmitry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

The Soviet ruling elite, the nomenklatura, used both cooption and political repression to encourage loyalty to the communist regime. Loyalty was critical both in defusing internal opposition to the rule of the nomenklatura and in either deterring or defeating foreign enemies of the Soviet Union....

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Hold Your Nose and Vote; Why Do Some Democracies tolerate Corruption?

Pani, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result … from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy …

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Modeling Politics with Economics tools; A Critical Survey of the Literature

Olters, Jan-Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

Whereas the economics discipline possesses a highly refined theoretical apparatus to analyze the effects of government behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that would permit the integration of the...

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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Experimentation vs. Career Concerns

Lockwood, Ben; Borgne, Eric Le - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

effort so that performance becomes a more accurate signal of her ability. Elections reduce the experimentation effect, and … the reduction in this effect may more than offset the positive "career-concerns" effect of elections on effort. Moreover …, when this occurs, appointment of officeholders may Pareto-dominate elections. …

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The Discipline-Enhancing Role of Fiscal Institutions; Theory and Empirical Evidence

Debrun, Xavier; Kumar, Manmohan S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper discusses the role of fiscal institutions, including budget rules and non-partisan agencies, in enhancing fiscal discipline. A dynamic model of fiscal policy shows that optimal institutions lack credibility unless the costs to bypass them are sufficiently high. In our model, a...

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Rethinking the Governance of the International Monetary Fund

Mirakhor, Abbas; Zaidi, Iqbal Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper attempts to set out the principal issues that need to be resolved in formulating a proposal for quotas and voice reform in the IMF that could command broad support. Following John Rawls, we argue that "justice is the first virtue of social institutions," and we use his theory of...

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Political Budget Cycles in Papua New Guinea

Faal, Ebrima - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

noteworthy that revenue was not statistically significantly related to elections, either in the pre- or post-election period. In …

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Political Price Cycles in Regulated Industries; Theory and Evidence

Paiva, Claudio; Moita, Rodrigo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper develops a model of political regulation in which politicians set the regulated price in order to maximize electoral support by signaling to voters a pro-consumer behavior. Political incentives and welfare constraints interact in the model, yielding an equilibrium in which the real...

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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption

Yehoue, Etienne B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to … conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears … technology of extraction operates only at the early stage of democracy. Its impact tends to phase out as democracy matures. In …

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