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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2014

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit the exogenous timing of variations in the level of ethnic heterogeneity due to the creation of new...

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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Weder di Mauro, Beatrice - 2021

less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid. On the contrary, according to some measures of corruption, more corrupt … governments receive more aid. Also, we could not find any evidence that an increase in foreign aid reduces corruption. In summary …

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Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Tabellini, Guido - 2021

Many countries, especially developing ones, follow procyclical fiscal polices, namely spending goes up (taxes go down) in booms and spending goes down (taxes go up) in recessions. We provide an explanation for this suboptimal fiscal policy based upon political distortions and incentives for...

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Corruption, Inequality and Fairness

Alesina, Alberto F.; Angeletos, George-Marios - 2021

Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for … redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a … simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past to current levels of taxation and corruption arises either when wealth …

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Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017

within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a … heterogeneity within member states themselves, or in well functioning federations such as the US, cultural diversity across EU …

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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The Euro and Structural Reforms

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of...

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What Does the European Union Do?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Angeloni, Ignazio; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2021

We construct a set of indicators to measure the policy-making role of the European Union (European Council, Parliament, Commission, Court of Justice, etc.), in a selected number of policy domains. Our goal is to examine the division of prerogatives between European institutions and national...

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The European Central Bank : Reshaping Monetary Politics in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F.; Grilli, Vittorio - 2021

This paper studies how the creation of a European Central Bank (ECB) will change the political economy of monetary policy in Europe. The twelve governors of the national Central Banks of the EEC have recently proposed a statute for the ECB which delineates its institutional structure. In this...

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The European Union : A Politically Incorrect View

Alesina, Alberto F.; Perotti, Roberto - 2021

EU institutions, and lack of transparency and accountability. This dirigiste culture produces verbose rhetoric, which …

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