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The European Commission – Appointment, Preferences, and Institutional Relations

Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - CESifo - 2007

The paper analyzes the appointment of the European Commission as a strategic game between members of the European Parliament and the Council. The focal equilibrium results in Commissioners that duplicate the policy preferences of national Council representatives. Different internal decision...

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Policy Deviations, Uncertainty, and the European Court of Justice

Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - CESifo - 2013

The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze incentives for member states to deviate from these directives when the European Commission may sue a defecting member state and rulings at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are...

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Chain of Legitimacy : Constitution Making in Iceland

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2016

national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …

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Human Capital and National Institutional Quality: Are TIMSS, PISA, and National Average IQ Robust Predictors?

Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2014

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International …

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …

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Why are Women less Democratic than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - CESifo - 2013

A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...

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The Business Environment in the Transition

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - CESifo - 2012

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - CESifo - 2013

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Voodoo versus Fishing Committees: The Role of Traditional and Contemporary Institutions in Fisheries Management

Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - CESifo - 2015

We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional … survey data on fishing activities, we find that rules of both institutions have a statistically significant but small impact … fully assess the effectiveness of, and interactions between, the two institutions. …

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