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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources
Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that …-market aspirations - and forces the elite to expand redistribution. Along the lines of this trade-off, our theory provides a Lipsetian … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587539
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Political capitalism : the interaction between income inequality, economic freedom and democracy
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2015
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411131
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630635
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On the modeling of the income distribution business cycle dynamics
Heer, Burkhard (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496643
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397182
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The nature of conflict
Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015
This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309623
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Income redistribution in open economies : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2015
Tóbiás, Áron - 2015
I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528950
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Persistence of high income inequality and banking crises : 1980-2010
Bellettini, Giorgio; Delbono, Flavio - 2013
Differently from Atkinson and Morelli (2011) who detect no clear link between increases in income inequality and systemic banking crises, we show that a large majority of crises occurred between 1982 and 2008 have been preceded by persistently high levels of income inequality. Such association...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764425
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Inequality and the Social Cost of Carbon
Anthoff, David; Emmerling, Johannes - 2016
This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500170
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Self-serving dictators and economic growth
Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie - 2003
A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth. We present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view. We model an economy with an unequal distribution of property rights, in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404315