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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson's [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from in-ternational financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630635
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450308
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The importance of the electoral rule : evidence from Italy
Bordignon, Massimo; Monticini, Andrea - 2011
We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy from 1993 to 2001, that moved the system for electing the Par-liament from purely proportional to plurality rule (for 75% of the seats). We do not find any effect on either the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010168
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Covid-19 fatalities and internal conflict : does government economic support matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour - 2021
importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased … government economic support. Our empirical analysis confirms this prediction: employing cross-country data for more than 100 … become insignificant with higher levels of government economic support. In countries where government spending in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643553
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Sweden : from macroeconomic failure to macroeconomic success
Calmfors, Lars - 2012
Major economic reforms have been carried through in Sweden during the last two decades. Most of the reforms have been made in response to long-standing rather than to acute problems. There has usually been a strong perception among economists, policy makers and the general public of the problems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532656
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
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EMU enlargement, policy uncertainty and economic reforms
Hefeker, Carsten (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364637
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Analyzing structural reforms using a behavioral macroeconomic model
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017
We use a behavioral macroeconomic model to analyze how structural reforms affect the economy in the short and in the long run. We consider two types of structural reforms. The first one increases the flexibility of wages and prices; the second one raises potential output in the economy. We find...
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Explaining vaccine hesitancy : a Covid-19 study of the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2022
Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168039
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
) fiscal policy, (2) government effectiveness, (3) economic productivity, and (4) happiness. The results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882595