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Who's Afraid of Foreign Aid? The Donors' Perspective
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2021
With efforts across the industrial countries to increase the amount of foreign aid mounting, it is important to understand its determinants. This paper examines the factors affecting the support for foreign aid among voters in donor countries. A simple theoretical model, which considers an...
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Power Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians : Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator
van Aaken, Anne - 2008
It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...
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How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?
Coady, David P. - 2016
This paper estimates fossil fuel subsidies and the economic and environmental benefits from reforming them, focusing mostly on a broad notion of subsidies arising when consumer prices are below supply costs plus environmental costs and general consumption taxes. Subsidies are $4.9 trillion...
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Pricing the Ecosystem and Taxing Ecosystem Services : A General Equilibrium Approach
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021
In an integrated dynamic general equilibrium model of the economy and the ecosystem humans and wildlife species compete for land and prey biomass. We introduce a competitive allocation mechanism in both submodels such that economic prices and ecosystem prices guide the allocation in the economy...
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Why Does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to Be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis
Kollmann, Andrea - 2010
There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...
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Tullock Challenges : Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges." The first relates to method: The measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
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How to Tame Two Leviathans? - Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure
Galletta, Sergio - 2012
We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …
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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy
Liu, Xuepeng - 2013
We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy …
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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
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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Resource Rents, Democracy and Corruption : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …
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