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Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
Richardson, Gary; Bogart, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Adaptable property-rights institutions, we argue, foster economic development. The British example illustrates this point. Around 1700, Parliament established a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to take advantage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720679
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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887109
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Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition
Romano, Richard Evans; Calabrese, Stephen; Epple, Dennis N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
-best allocation and show efficiency can be implemented with decentralization using head taxes. We calibrate the model and compare … decentralization and property taxation are large, dissipating most if not all the potential welfare gains that efficient … decentralization could achieve. In property tax equilibrium centralization is frequently more efficient! An externality in community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228884
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The Timing, Intensity, and Composition of Interest Group Lobbying: An Analysis of Structural Policy Windows in the States
Figueiredo, John M. de - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This is the first paper to statistically examine the timing of interest group lobbying. It introduces a theoretical framework based on recurring structural policy windows' and argues that these types of windows should have a large effect on the intensity and timing of interest group activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720888
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Subsidiarity and the European Union
Inman, Robert P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
essay reviews three alternative models of subsidiarity -- decentralized federalism, centralized federalism, and democratic … federalism -- and argues the current European Economic Community has evolved from decentralized to centralized to a fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830823
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Local Public Good Provision: Voting, Peer Effects, and Mobility
Calabrese, Stephen; Epple, Dennis; Romer, Thomas; Sieg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Few empirical strategies have been developed that investigate public provision under majority rule while taking explicit account of the constraints implied by mobility of households. The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of voting in local communities when neighborhood quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778662
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Special Interest Groups and the Allocation of Public Funds
Singhal, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
A long-standing puzzle in the fiscal federalism literature is the empirical non-equivalence in government spending from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034922
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Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers: Evidence from City Treasurers
Whalley, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper investigates whether methods of public official selection affect policymaking in cities. I draw on the unique characteristics of California's city referendum process to identify the causal effect of city treasurers' method of selection on their cities' debt management policies. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619303
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Trebbi, Francesco; Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196342
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The Unified Enterprise Tax and SOEs in China
Whalley, John; Wang, Li - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Currently proposals are actively circulating in China to move to a unified enterprise tax structure with similar tax treatment of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), other private enterprises (OPE) and foreign investment enterprises (FIEs). FIEs presently receive significant tax preferences through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005713959