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Income and Democracy; Lipset's Law Revisited

Hoeffler, Anke; Bates, Robert H.; Fayad, Ghada - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

We revisit Lipsetâ€˜s law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using … democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …

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Hold Your Nose and Vote; Why Do Some Democracies tolerate Corruption?

Pani, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result … from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy … corruption (such as a weak enforcement of the law) in order to alter future policy decisions in their favor. This result …

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Corruption, Competition, and Contracts; A Model of Vote Buying

Vardy, Felix J. J.; Morgan, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of votebuying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome....

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Vested Interests in a Positive Theory of IFI Conditionality

Mourmouras, Alex; Mayer, Wolfgang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Understanding of the domestic political environment is key to building broad country ownership and the successful implementation of reform programs supported by international financial institutions (IFIs). But recipient countries are not unitary actors: policymakers are influenced by special...

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Is Policy Ownership An Operational Concept?

Boughton, James M.; Mourmouras, Alex - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

IMF lending is generally conditional on specified policies and outcomes. These conditions usually are negotiated compromises between policies initially favored by the Fund and by the country's authorities. In some cases the authorities might be satisfied enough with the outcome to take...

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Oil Rents, Corruption, and State Stability; Evidence From Panel Data Regressions

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation of a new measure of oil rents for a panel of 31 oil-exporting countries during the period 1992 to 2005. We find that an increase in oil rents significantly increases...

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What Determines the Implementation of IMF-Supported Programs?

Mourmouras, Alex; Ivanova, Anna; Anayotos, George C.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper assesses the implementation of IMF-supported programs using measures of program interruptions, compliance with conditionality, and the share of committed funds disbursed. The econometric model allows an evaluation of the importance for program implementation of political conditions in...

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Performance of Western Hemisphere Trading Blocs; A Cost-Corrected Gravity Approach

Croce, Enzo; Juan-Ramon, V. Hugo; Zhu, Feng - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

We study the performance of the four Western Hemisphere trading blocs during the period 1978-2001. For the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trade integration outweighed trade diversion; for MERCOSUR, increased integration and trade diversion went hand in hand; for the Central American...

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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?

Mishra, Prachi; Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...

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Trade, Growth, and Poverty; A Selective Survey

Berg, Andrew; Krueger, Anne O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution for a given growth rate. Evidence from a variety of...

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