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Democracy and income inequality : an empirical analysis

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Milanović, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - 2001

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … proxied by a country's dominant religion - seems to be related to inequality. But in addition, in Judeo-Christian societies …

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Self-serving dictators and economic growth

Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie - 2003

present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view. We model an economy with …

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Electoral rules and corruption

Persson, Torsten - 2001

Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social … determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems influence … corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the literature, by relating corruption to different features of the electoral system …

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Shadow economies around the world - size, causes, and consequences

Schneider, Friedrich - 1999

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The X tax in the world economy

Bradford, David F. - 2004

This paper considers the treatment of multinational business in the system known as an X Tax. The focus is on the choice between origin and destination treatments of transborder transactions. The destination-principle approach sidesteps the transferpricing problem. It remains in the...

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The effects of monetary policy : a meta-analysis

De Grauwe, Paul; Costa, Cláudia - 2004

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We use a sample of published papers on the effects of monetary policies in different countries. There is a large variation in the estimated effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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Making judges independent : some proposals regarding the judiciary

Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2004

It is argued that an independent judiciary is a necessary condition for both individual liberty and economic prosperity. After having surveyed the literature dealing with how to arrange for an independent judiciary, the authors derive some additional policy implications by drawing on two...

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How much does violence tax trade?

Blomberg, Stephen Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004

We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is based on a panel data set with annual observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 1999, which brings together information from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for...

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