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On the Conditional Effects of IMF Program Participation on Output Growth

Binder, Michael - 2013

The empirical evidence currently available in the literature regarding the effects of a country's IMF program participation on its output growth is rather mixed. To shed new evidence on this issue, in this paper we specify a state- dependent panel data model accounting in particular for program...

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The Political Economy of Financial Systems : Evidence from Suffrage Reforms in the Last Two Centuries

Degryse, Hans - 2014

Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...

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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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Do IMF and World Bank Influence Voting in the Un General Assembly?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2021

and the World Bank on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. Countries receiving adjustment programs and larger non …-concessional loans from the World Bank vote more frequently in line with the average G7 country. The same is true for countries obtaining … non-concessional IMF programs. Regarding voting coincidence with the US, World Bank (concessional and non …

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The Golden Hello and Political Transitions

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2012

We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …

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Globalisation and the Mix of Wage and Profit Taxes

Haufler, Andreas - 2006

This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries reduce their corporate tax rate, relative to the wage tax, either when...

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Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals : With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of Government

Ferris, J. Stephen - 2006

We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...

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Game of Zones : The Political Economy of Conservation Areas

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Moeller, Kristoffer; Waights, Sevrin - 2021

Provided there are positive external benefits attached to the historic character of buildings, owners of properties in designated conservation areas benefit from a reduction in uncertainty regarding the future of their area. At the same time, the restrictions put in place to ensure the...

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Regional and Ethnic Favoritism in the Allocation of Humanitarian Aid

Bommer, Christian - 2018

International humanitarian aid is pivotal in the response to natural disasters suffered by low-and middle-income countries. While its allocation has been shown to be influenced by donors' foreign policy considerations, power relations within recipient countries have not been addressed. This...

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The International Monetary Fund : 70 Years of Reinvention

Reinhart, Carmen - 2016

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change, as the needs of its clients and the type of crisis...

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