This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of … from Western Europe we conclude that in terms of market integration the Great Divergence was well under way decades before …

intellectual trend. According to that hypothesis, politicians of the same party tend to behave similarly: incumbents of the same … party mimic each other's policies. Moreover partisan politics may also act through a monopoly power effect linked to several … terms of power for the same party, consecutively: a political party is more likely to have implemented tax rates …

individuals' party identification. Consistent with the deprivation theory, we find strong and robust evidence that subjective job …

election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …

between the demand for redistribution and individuals' party identification …

individuals' support for government intervention and their party identification. This result provides indirect evidence on the …

on China have examined the relationship between Communist Party membership and earnings and found a positive correlation … estimate the causal effect of Chinese Communist Party membership on monthly earnings in China. We find that, on average …, membership in the Communist Party of China increases monthly earnings and the wage premium has grown in recent years. We explore …

parties. We focus on immigrant location decisions in Northern Italy which has seen the rise of the anti-immigration party Lega …

mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political … elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat.We estimate that a one seat increase for the far …-right, anti-immigration party decreases negative attitudes towards immigration by 4.1 percentage points, in opposition to the …