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Reform, uncertainty and spillovers : a gravity model approach
Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503832
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488896
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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods
Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001
This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy
Graeber, Daniel; Meister, Lorenz; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023
-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders notably increased satisfaction with democracy and shifted political support towards … centrist parties. Stay-at-home orders increased satisfaction with democracy most among individuals who had been exposed to the … restrictive state interventions. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that satisfaction with democracy increases more among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450777
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Politics and IMF conditionality
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013 - This version: June 2013
Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...
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Buying votes and international organizations : the dirty work-hypothesis
Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin; Rosendorff, B. Peter; … - 2018
countries’ votes in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Introducing new data on voting behavior in the UNSC over the … 1960-2015 period, our results show that states allied with the US receive more bilateral aid when voting in line with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927941
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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515355
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Democracy and growth : evidence of a new measurement
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2015
We present a novel approach for measuring democracy based on Support Vector Machines, a mathematical algorithm for … pattern recognition. The Support Vector Machines Democracy Index (SVMDI) is continuously on the 0-1-interval and enables a … very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405138
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The female vote and the rise of AKP in Turkey
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2015
Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social … science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using … European Social Survey data, we find that education level and religiosity are the main determinants of voting behavior of both …
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