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Foreign Influence and Welfare
Antras, Pol; Miquel, Gerard Padró i - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
-enhancing from the point of view of aggregate world welfare because it helps alleviate externalities arising from cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778622
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Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Many of the most pernicious economic institutions and policies create entry barriers or manipulate factor prices to transfer resources from entrepreneurs and workers to groups that hold political power. These inefficiencies partly result from the fact that direct and efficient fiscal instruments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631677
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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Olken, Benjamin; Jones, Benjamin F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to … toward democracy. We also find that assassinations affect the intensity of small-scale conflicts. The results document a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714005
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The Economics of Labor Coercion
Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are "coercive", in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. We propose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624628
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Left, Right, Left: Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John; Carter, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950705
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Estimating Habit Formation in Voting
Fujiwara, Thomas; Meng, Kyle C.; Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We estimate habit formation in voting--the effect of past on current turnout--by exploiting transitory voting cost shocks. Using county-level data on U.S. presidential elections from 1952-2012, we find that precipitation on current and past election days reduces voter turnout. Our estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951375
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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets
casella, alessandra; Turban, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
. In a large electorate, the numerical advantage of the majority becomes irrelevant: democracy is undone by the market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252333
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Ideology
Benabou, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830746
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Why is Economic Policy Different in New Democracies? Affecting Attitudes About Democracy
Drazen, Allan; Brender, Adi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
When democracy is new, it is often fragile and not fully consolidated. We investigate how the danger of a collapse of … democracy may affect fiscal policy in new democracies in comparison to countries where democracy is older and often more … established. We argue that the attitude of the citizenry towards democracy is important in preventing democratic collapse, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777307
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950707