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Chinese Aid and Democratic Values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin … democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081428
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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations
Comertpay, Rana - 2019
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889685
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What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona
Beetsma, Roel - 2020
Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU) budgetary assistance instrument to combat adverse temporary or permanent economic shocks hitting Member States. Suitably designed, there is quite substantial support for such an EU...
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Does Expert Information Affect Citizens' Attitudes Toward Corona Policies? Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021
Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...
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Revenge of the Experts : Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat; Saka, Orkun - 2021
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in science and scientists. Building on the “impressionable...
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Affecting Public Support for Economic Policies : Evidence from a Survey Experiment About Rent Control in Germany
Dolls, Mathias; Schüle, Paul; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2023
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents’ agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent displacement of...
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Perceptions About Monetary Policy
Bauer, Michael D.; Pflueger, Carolin E.; Sunderam, Aditya - 2023
We estimate perceptions about the Fed’s monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions is time-varying and cyclical: high during tightening episodes but low...
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Workers of the world, unite! Franchise extensions and the threat of revolution in Europe, 1820-1938
Aidt, Toke S.; Jensen, Peter S. - 2011
This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke S.; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288466
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - 2004
liberalizations correspond to the event of becoming a democracy. Using a difference-indifference estimation, we ask what are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261237