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analyze the reporting behavior and the degree of transparency across the reports. We observe a large heterogeneity with …
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We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse, in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy's total value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rents will alter the incentives of a political leader....
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tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods - on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether … government positively. Moreover, we explore whether adherence to collectivist norms of economic and political organization leads … to a positive evaluation of central government. Surveys were conducted in Russia and Israel as these countries provide a …
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We analyze the impact of the Network Enforcement Act, the first regulation which aims at restraining hate speech on large social media platforms. Using a difference-in- differences framework, we measure the causal impact of the German law on the prevalence of hateful content on German Twitter....
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We use novel data to describe the evolution of party differences in parliamentary speech in Finland during 1907-2018. We find a peak in left-right polarization in the 1970s, driven by the extreme left party, and co-occuring with a high prevalance of Soviet Union related phrases, perhaps...
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