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Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak … and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption. …
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dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …
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in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying …
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Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
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We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge …
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through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this paper, we analyze both theoretically and empirically the role of these … networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks. We develop a network model that shows how a district's level of …
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We introduce endogenous fire sales into a simple network model. For any given initial distribution of shocks across the network, we develop a clearing algorithm to solve for the financial equilibrium. We then utilise the results to perform ex ante risk assessment and derive risk premia for every...
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product …
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networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where … results show that protests spread more in places with strong offline networks as measured by real-life networks like village …
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