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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
communism. …
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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177137
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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697515
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020
We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on … variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Against the backdrop that ‘communism gives …, suggesting that (raising uncertainty and adversity during) communism increased the demand for all types of available insurance. …
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Irreversible investments, dynamic inconsistency and policy convergence
Hagen, Rune Jansen (contributor); Torsvik, Gaute (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003495667
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Political parties and network formation
Miettinen, Topi (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...
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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...
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The growth in military expenditure in Germany 1951 - 2011: did parties matter?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto...
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Do political parties matter for local land use policies?
Solé-Ollé, Albert; Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet - 2013
Despite interest in the impact of land use regulations on housing construction and housing prices, little is known about the drivers of these policies. The conventional wisdom holds that homeowners have an influence on restrictive local zoning. In this paper, we contend that the party...
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