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The Role of Government and Trust in the Market Economy

König, Nadja; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2018

This paper studies the role of governments and its link to trust. We argue that the public’s trust strongly depends on governments delivering on their core tasks in a market economy. In some economies, a neglect of core tasks can be observed and there seems to be some erosion, notably in terms...

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Civic Engagement as a Constraint on Corruption

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tabero, Katy; Tyran, … - 2024

Corruption is the great disease of government. It undermines the efficiency of the public sector in many countries … around the world. We experimentally study civic engagement (CE) as a constraint on corruption when incentives are stacked … against providing CE. We show that CE is powerful in curbing corruption when citizens can encourage each other to provide CE …

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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...

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Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 2022

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

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Maize and Precolonial Africa

Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno-Cruz, Juan - 2018

Columbus’s arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased...

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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 2022

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Shadow Economies around the World: New Results for 158 Countries over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development

Skaperdas, Stergios; Testa, Patrick A. - 2023

Early in their formation, modern nation-states face internal conflicts that impede their economic development. This paper examines the role of national identity in helping modern states overcome such conflicts to provide public goods and grow. We develop a model in which the population can...

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Volatility and Resilience of Democratic Public-Good Provision

Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Bolgè, Giovanni Valvassori - 2024

We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...

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Appropriate fiscal policy over the business cycle: Proper stimulus policies can work

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

Fiscal policy has become quite controversial in the post-Keynesian era, the debate over the Obama stimulus package being a contentious recent example. Some pundits go so far as to take the position that macroeconomic theory has failed to meaningfully progress in terms of providing useful...

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