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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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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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Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
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I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...
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Proprietary rule, whereby the state is owned by a ruler who maximizes tax revenues minus the costs of governing, is a useful ideal type that describes many of the states that have ever existed. The study of proprietary rule and its public finance, however, is comparatively scarce. I argue that...
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probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival …
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statistical framework, in a panel of 160 countries, we focus on 14 episodes of transition from democracy to autocracy. We find …
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a similar move in a Hungarian-style pension system with a defined-benefit first pillar and how does Estonia's temporary …
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The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered …
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on the unconditional, down-flow grant system in Estonia. In particular the procedure of determining the total sum of …
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