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Dragnet-Controls and Government Ideology

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …

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The Political Scar of Epidemics

Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun; Aksoy, Cevat - 2021

with the (in)effectiveness of a government’s healthcare-related responses to past epidemics. We document this mechanism …

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A test of the law of demand in a virtual world: exploring the Petri dish approach to social science

Castronova, Edward - 2008

We report results of an experiment on prices and demand in a fantasy-based virtual world. A virtual world is a persistent, synthetic, online environment that can be accessed by many users at the same time. Because most virtual worlds are built around a fantasy theme, complete with magic,...

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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF decisions?: evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2006

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using panel data for 191 countries over the period 1951 to 2004. Our results indicate a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and participation in...

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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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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

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Prudent budgetary policy: political economy of precautionary taxation

van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2007

prudence. A prudent government deliberately underestimates future national income and the tax base, especially if the variance … government spending or a combination of both. It is easy to allow for government assets as well. Finally, political economy …

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Lame ducks and divided government: How voters control the unaccountable

Schelker, Mark - 2011

alternative mechanism known as divided government. By dividing government control between the executive and legislative branches … states from 1975 to 2000, it is shown that the probability of divided government is 10-15 percent higher when governors are …

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A theory of government procrastination

Furusawa, Taiji; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2011

We present a theory to explain government procrastination as a consequence of its present-bias resulting from the … theory predicts that a government with a more strongly predominant party tends to procrastinate less. …

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