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Political Participation and the Welfare State
Borck, Rainald - 2018
A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review … this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the … empirical literature on the link between education, income and political participation, as well as that between political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912682
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Selection Biases in Complementary R&D Projects
Choi, Jay Pil - 2011
This paper analyzes selection biases in the project choice of complementary technologies that are used in combination to produce a final product. In the presence of complementary technologies, patents allow innovating firms to hold up rivals who succeed in developing other system components....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125704
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Combining Rights and Welfarism : A New Approach to Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives
Van Long, Ngo - 2013
We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091469
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao - 2013
This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075128
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Institutions, Trade and Development : A Quantitative Analysis
Beverelli, Cosimo - 2018
We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920756
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Landlockedness and Economic Development : Analyzing Subnational Panel Data and Exploring Mechanisms
Jetter, Michael - 2018
This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930611
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Coordinated Tax-Tariff Reforms, Informality, and Welfare Distribution
Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2010
The paper studies the revenue, efficiency, and distributional implications of a simple strategy of offsetting tariff reductions with increases in destination-based consumption taxes so as to leave consumer prices unchanged. We employ a dynamic micro-founded macroeconomic model of a small open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141409
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The Political Economy of International Finance Corporation Lending
Dreher, Axel - 2019
capital is not available on reasonable terms. We investigate the drivers of this mismatch. According to our theory, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900790
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2021
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316223
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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
Dufwenberg, Martin - 2014
Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049219