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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
liberalizations correspond to the event of becoming a democracy. Using a difference-indifference estimation, we ask what are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450308
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Political stasis or protectionist rut? : Policy mechanisms for trade reform in a democracy
Blanchard, Emily (contributor); Willmann, Gerald (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597975
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406570
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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia's break up
Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - 2014
Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433968
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Current account imbalances and structural adjustment in the Euro area : how to rebalance competitiveness
Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - 2009
Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850175
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Analyzing structural reforms using a behavioral macroeconomic model
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017
We use a behavioral macroeconomic model to analyze how structural reforms affect the economy in the short and in the long run. We consider two types of structural reforms. The first one increases the flexibility of wages and prices; the second one raises potential output in the economy. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663556
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Pareto-improving structural reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018
Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941166
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Structural reforms and income inequality : who benefits from market-oriented reforms?
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154916
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Structural reforms, growth and inequality : an overview of theory, measurement and evidence
Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017
This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780603
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Democracy and development : the devil in the details
Persson, Torsten (contributor);  … - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited … explain why presidential democracy leads to faster growth than parliamentary democracy. Third, it is important to distinguish … growth effect of democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301122