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Social Ideology and Taxes in a Differentiated Candidates Framework

Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2021

How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...

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IMF Surveillance and Financial Markets - A Political Economy Analysis

Fratzscher, Marcel - 2014

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...

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Political Booms, Financial Crises

Herrera, Helios - 2014

We show that political booms, measured by the rise in governments' popularity, predict financial crises above and beyond other better-known early warning indicators, such as credit booms. This predictive power, however, only holds in emerging economies. We show that governments in emerging...

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Geopolitics, Aid and Growth

Dreher, Axel - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries' political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy's...

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The Political Economy of Financial Systems : Evidence from Suffrage Reforms in the Last Two Centuries

Degryse, Hans - 2014

Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...

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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2021

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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The Political Economy of International Organizations

Dreher, Axel - 2016

We review the literature on the political economy of international organizations (IOs). Considering IOs as products of the preferences of various actors rather than monolithic entities we focus on national politicians, international bureaucrats, interest groups, and voters. By looking into the...

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Tax Interaction Among Walloon Municipalities : Is there Room for Yardstick Competition, Intellectual Trend and Partisan Monopoly Effect?

Gérard, Marcel - 2012

corresponding to its ideology if it has ruled the municipality several legislatures in a row.The paper proposes an empirical …

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Looking Back on Anger : Explaining the Social Origins of Left-Wing and Nationalist - Separatist Terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007

Brockhoff, Sarah - 2012

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...

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