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Does the World Economy Swing National Elections?
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
between 1978 and 1999, comparing the effect of world growth (“luck”) and national growth relative to world growth (“competence … percentage point of world growth boosts incumbents’ chances of re-election by 9 percent, while an extra percentage point of … national growth relative to world growth only boosts an incumbent’s chances of re-election by 4 percent. Voters are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032877
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A Political Economy Model of Infrastructure Allocation: An Empirical Assessment
Cadot, Olivier; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stephan, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666545
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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that the arbitrary political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned more than two hundred ethnic groups across different countries subjecting similar cultures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084103
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The Returns from Reducing Corruption: Evidence from Education in Uganda
Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
What is the most effective way to increase primary school enrolment and student learning? We argue that innovations in governance of social services may yield the highest return since social service delivery in developing countries is often plagued by inefficiencies and corruption. We examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504593
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Bribery Environment and Firm Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries
Hanousek, Jan; Kochanova, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We examine the relation between bureaucratic corruption and firm performance in CEE countries. While previous research uses data from BEEPS, which suffers from excessive non-reporting of corporate performance, we combine reliable firm financials from the Amadeus database with information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207394
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Government Transfers and Political Support
Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; Vigorito, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty program - the Uruguayan PANES - on political support for the government that implemented it. The program mainly consisted of a monthly cash transfer for a period of roughly two and half years. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011856
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We apply a regression discontinuity design to estimate the returns to being elected to parliament or to a municipal council. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness in any electoral system, and apply it to the Finnish proportional open list system. Getting elected to...
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Political Connections and Firm Value: Evidence from the Regression Discontinuity Design of Close Gubernatorial Elections
Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen-Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using the regression discontinuity design of close gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we identify a significant and positive impact of the social networks of corporate directors and politicians on firm value. Firms connected to elected governors increase their value by 3.89%. Political...
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
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Fiscal Centralization and the Political Process
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study the dynamic support for fiscal decentralization in a political agency model from the perspective of a region. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization makes more difficult for citizens to detect corrupt...
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