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Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
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, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in … ideology-induced policies implemented by established parties. Dragnet- controls confine citizens’ liberties, but may help to …
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The formation and expansion of the European Union (EU) have attracted much attention. However, the impact on the level of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union potentially faces two different and opposite effects on...
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Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies …. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating …
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We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … in a generalized difference in differences framework. We examine government documents articulating desired consequences …
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protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we …, we find that some of the respondents' psychological traits are not filtered through their political ideology but directly … influence their proclaimed attitudes towards environment protection policies. We identify as important behavioral determinants …
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Firms often discourage certain categories of individuals from buying their products, seemingly at odds with typical assumptions about profit maximization. This paper provides a potential rationale for such firm behavior: Consumers seek to signal that they have "desirable" ideological values to...
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In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw...
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ideology than when it targets the implementation of an outcome aligned with the ideology. Theoretically, we study whether fixed …
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. Contestable rents can also be found outside of government decisions. We describe the example of rents in academia in different … to influence a smaller number of decision makers. Ideology can influence whether rent seeking is recognized to exist. …
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