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unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …
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We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization … economic reform, economic growth and, with a delay, on investment and institutional change. Episode of high inflation, moreover …, translate into lower subsequent inflation. Crises thus appear to serve as catalysts of reform and institutional change and lead …
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Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be … required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory … transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This paper provides sufficient conditions for this to occur, despite tax …
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A country's form of government has important economic and political consequences, but the determinants that lead countries to choose either parliamentary or presidential systems are largely unexplored. This paper studies this choice by analyzing the factors that make countries switch from...
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The institutional reforms France imposed in the parts of Germany it occupied in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are claimed to provide an example of successful externally-imposed institutional reforms. The most detailed study is that of Lecce and Ogliari (2019), who argue that...
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fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a greater proportion of land redistributed during the Revolution …
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The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...
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This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...
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This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 “Old” European Union Member States’ agricultural sectors for...
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This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 “Old” European Union Member States’ agricultural sectors for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239559