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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010
We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which...
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When is a State Predatory?
Robinson, James A. - CESifo - 1999
I argue that whether or not a state is "predatory" hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this gives those who initially hold political power an...
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The Growth in Military Expenditure in Germany 1951-2011: Did Parties Matter?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015
We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto...
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Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah - 2016
The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental...
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The Growth in Military Expenditure in Germany 1951-2011 : Did Parties Matter?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2015
We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023106
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The Political Economy of Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu - 2013
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
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Using Military Build-Ups to Capture Fiscal Shocks : A Reassessment
Yang, Weonho - 2014
Ramey (2011a) and others argue that increases in government spending associated with wars and military build-ups constitute a good instrument for measuring the macroeconomic effects of fiscal shocks. We argue that this instrument has two important drawbacks: the composition of government...
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Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - CESifo - 2014
Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …
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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938
Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter S. - CESifo - 2011
This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...
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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth
Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...
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