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Immigration and Violent Crime : Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border
Knight, Brian G. - 2020
the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481473
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Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability : Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
Knight, Brian - 2019
geographic location of the Globovision broadcast towers, Chavez approval ratings fell following the closing of RCTV in places … signal, relative to places without, support for Chavez in electoral data also fell following the closing of RCTV …, document that switching to uncensored outlets led to an economically significant reduction in support for Chavez …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479866
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Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2010
We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that accounts for natural capital and human capital as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462059
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The Price of Political Opposition : Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2009
In 2004, the Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters whom had attempted to remove him … identified as a Chavez political opponent. We find that voters who were identified as Chavez opponents experienced a 5 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463725
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Risk Matters : The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2009
This paper shows how changes in the volatility of the real interest rate at which small open emerging economies borrow have a quantitatively important effect on real variables like output, consumption, investment, and hours worked. To motivate our investigation, we document the strong evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463773
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Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Eskeland, Gunnar A. - 2002
This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at best. We then examine whether foreign firms pollute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469826
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The Impact of Inflation on Budgetary Discipline
Aizenman, Joshua - 1995
This paper investigates budgetary rules for an economy characterized by inflation and volatile relative prices. We view the budgetary process as a limited contingencies contract between the treasury and the ministers. The budgetary process allows a minister, whose realized real budget falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473531
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Wages and Foreign Ownership : A Comparative Study of Mexico, Venezuela and the United States
Aitken, Brian - 1995
This paper explores the relationship between wages and foreign investment in Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States. Despite very different economic conditions and levels of development, we find one fact which is robust across all three countries: higher levels of foreign investment are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473784
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Finders, Keepers?
Jaakkola, Niko - 2016
Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456256
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The Limits of Propaganda : Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
Knight, Brian - 2016
In this paper, we investigate viewer responses to changes in the ideological content of television programming using variation induced by cadenas, unannounced takeovers of the public television airwaves by the government in Venezuela. Using high-frequency ratings data, we find that, consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456619