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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes

Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2016

Using a panel of 97 mostly developing and transitional countries for the period 1990-2011, this paper explores fiscal implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...

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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020

equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …

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Emotions and political unrest

Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2013

This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This reaction is predictable because individuals have a...

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A theory of government procrastination

Furusawa, Taiji; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2011

We present a theory to explain government procrastination as a consequence of its present-bias resulting from the political uncertainty in a two-party political system. We show that under a two-party political system the party in office tends to be present-biased. This may lead to inefficient...

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Think locally, act locally : spillovers, spillbacks, and efficient decentralized policymaking

Ogawa, Hikaru (contributor); Wildasin, David E. (contributor) - 2007

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Habit formation, strategic extremism and debt policy

Matsen, Egil (contributor); Thøgersen, Øystein (contributor) - 2007

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Majority-efficiency and competition-efficiency in a binary policy model

Krasa, Stefan (contributor); Polborn, Mattias (contributor) - 2007

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On the incentives to experiment in federations

Kotsogiannēs, Chrēstos (contributor); … - 2005

Conventional wisdom has it that policy innovation is better promoted in a federal rather than in a unitary system. Recent research, however, has provided theoretical evidence to the contrary: a multi-jurisdictional system is characterized - due to the existence of a horizontal information...

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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa

Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016 - This version: March 2016

Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...

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Turkey and the EU : politics and economics of accession

Flam, Harry - 2003

This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the greatest number of council votes within twenty years, and receive the largest budget transfer. Free migration may increase the Turkish immigrant population in Germany from 2 to...

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