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This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This reaction is predictable because individuals have a...
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We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
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introduce a common-agency lobbying game, where agents attempt to influence the location and provision decisions by the … lobbying game can replicate the optimal solution. Second, under-provision and over-provision of the public good may be obtained … an agglomeration effect. Third, some non-lobbying neighborhoods may be better off than in the case where all …
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Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that the presence of these interest groups increases the winning set, which is the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the incumbent. Therefore, interest...
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with newly released information on non-tariff measures aggregated at the tariff-line level. Drawing upon the panel … just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …
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This paper proposes a new panel data structural gravity approach for estimating the trade and welfare effects of Brexit …
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Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots …
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The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
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EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts for firm heterogeneity and selection bias in a panel …
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In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time …
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