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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
.0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839262
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Term Limits : Do They Really Affect Fiscal Policy Choices?
Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2021
According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316609
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Determinants of Direct Democracy
Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2021
This paper investigates on the demographic, economic, political and cultural determinants of direct democracy in 87 countries using an index of direct democracy. The test is interesting since there are important variations across these countries in the referendum and initiative use. We apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316998
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Determinants of direct democracy
Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2007
This paper investigates on the demographic, economic, political and cultural determinants of direct democracy in 87 countries using an index of direct democracy. The test is interesting since there are important variations across these countries in the referendum and initiative use. We apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264160
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Term limits: do they really affect fiscal policy choices?
Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2008
According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264291
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Autocratic transitions and growth
Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2010
In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology - synthetic control methods - to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth of countries that experienced a transition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266104
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274453
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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income: A new panel IV approach
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011
Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277354