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The Economic Effects of Direct Democracy - A First Global Assessment

Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan - 2021

This is the first study that assesses the economic effects of direct democratic institutions on a cross country basis. Its results are based on up to six new measures produced to reflect the legislative basis for using direct democratic institutions as well as their factual use. In addition, a...

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The economic effects of constitutions: replicating - and extending - Persson and Tabellini

Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan; Wolf, Carsten - 2007

Persson and Tabellini (2003) show that presidential regimes and majoritarian election systems have important effects on fiscal policy, government effectiveness and productivity. Here, their dataset is extended in a number of ways: the number of countries included is increased from 85 to up to...

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The economic effects of direct democracy: a first global assessment

Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan - 2007

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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility?: testing the effects of delegating powers

Dreher, Axel; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...

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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts: a cross-country analysis

Voigt, Stefan - 2008

Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...

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Do rankings reflect research quality?

Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - 2008

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...

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Politicians: be killed or survive

Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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The relevance of judicial procedure for economic growth

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2008

It has been argued that procedural formalism undermines economic efficiency by fostering rent-seeking and corruption. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the predictability of court decisions, which leads to more...

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Awards in economics: towards a new field of inquiry

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics profession and analyzes the number and type of awards...

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World heritage: where are we? An empirical analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered balanced from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

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