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Can Institutions Be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized trial testing whether these institutions can be reformed through incremental administrative...
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Taxation and Development
Besley, Timothy J.; Persson, Torsten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The central question in taxation and development is: "how does a government go from raising around 10% of GDP in taxes to raising around 40%"? This paper looks at the economic and political forces that shape the way that fiscal capacity is created and sustained. As well as reviewing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083455
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Democracy and Foreign Education
Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Do foreign educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home country? Despite the large amount of … foster democracy in their home countries. Using a unique panel dataset on foreign students starting from 1950, I show that … indeed foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791894
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The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogeneous and How Can It Be Estimated?
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
parametric estimates may have seriously underestimated the growth effects of democracy. In particular, we find an average … negative effect on growth of leaving democracy on the order of -2 percentage points implying effects on income per capita as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124474
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Mixed Oligopoly Equilibria When Firms' Objectives Are Endogenous
De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study a vertically differentiated market where two firms simultaneously choose the quality and price of the good they sell and where consumers also care for the average quality of the goods supplied. Firms are composed of two factions whose objectives differ: one is maximizing profit while...
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F; Giovannoni, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program
Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory village planning. We use matching methods and...
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The Marshall Plan: Economic Effects and Implications for Eastern Europe and the Former USSR
Eichengreen, Barry; Uzan, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
This paper is a first attempt to evaluate the economic effects of the Marshall Plan. We find that US aid had a significant impact on Europe's recovery from World War II. The recipients of large amounts of Marshall aid recovered significantly faster than other industrial countries. Strikingly,...
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State Capacity and Military Conflict
Gennaioli, Nicola; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In 1500, Europe was composed of hundreds of statelets and principalities, with weak central authority, no monopoly over the legitimate use of violence, and multiple, overlapping levels of jurisdiction. By 1800, Europe had consolidated into a handful of powerful, centralized nation states. We...
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The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
Besley, Timothy J.; Persson, Torsten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Economists generally assume the existence of sufficient institutions to sustain a market economy and tax the citizens. However, this starting point cannot easily be taken for granted in many states, neither in history nor in the developing world of today. This paper develops a framework where...
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