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benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …
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We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...
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Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these institutions. In this paper, we test within a unified framework...
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satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality … problems ; environmental economics and policy ; satisfaction with democracy …
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Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and … countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset … 150 countries over the period 1960-2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic …
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Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
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We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the … individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their …
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This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …
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In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into...
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