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 …

substantial reversal to state intervention if nowadays the world was hit by a shock of the size of the Great Depression …

At the close of World War II, there were wide-ranging debates about the future of economic developments. Historical … the likelihood of secular stagnation; this topic continued to be debated throughout the post-World War II expansion … growth in less developed countries were contradicted when during the mid- and late-1970s, fertility rates in third world …