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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China

Harris, Richard I. D. - 2017

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...

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The Economics of Politics : Patronage and Political Selection in Italy

Quaresima, Federico - 2017

This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the …, where the interests of political parties and districts may diverge, the formers would need patronage resource to assure … parliamentarians' loyalty does play a role in patronage appointments as well as the electoral result in the next electoral competition …

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Ethnic Favoritism : An Axiom of Politics?

De Luca, Giacomo - 2015

We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...

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Kinship Systems, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2018

An influential body of psychological and anthropological theories holds that societies exhibit heterogeneous cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce cooperative behavior. According to some of these theories, entire...

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Knowing the Right Person in the Right Place : Political Connections and economic Growth

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2021

Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast...

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Electoral Competition as a Determinant of Fiscal Decentralization

Jametti, Mario - 2011

, the theory's main insight being that the central government's electoral strength should, all else being equal, decrease …

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Voting Under the Threat of Secession : Accommodation vs. Repression

Anesi, Vincent - 2011

We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government's type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static...

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Elections and Market Provision of Information

Bruns, Christian - 2013

Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a theoretical model to show that, in contrast to this widely held belief, rational voters acquire considerable amounts of information if media technology is available because then they...

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian - 2018

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...

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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions

Ade, Florian - 2012

the findings can be related to an incumbency externality effect and to the theory of voter preferences for divided …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112896

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