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, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …
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bewertet. Die Wirtschaft kann Vorreiter einer Versöhnung werden, wenn die politischen Rahmenbedingungen konkreter manifestiert …
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Israel hat sich zu einer regionalen Wirtschaftsmacht mit Handelsbeziehungen hauptsächlich zu Westeuropa und den USA entwickelt. Die Kooperationsbestrebungen der arabischen Länder untereinander zeigen bisher nur sehr begrenzte Erfolge. Der mit dem Gaza-Jericho-Abkommen vom September 1993...
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Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their workers to answer this question. Our analysis uses a brand-new dataset, spanning the period from 1993 to 2014, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social...
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timing of the extensions of this right from elite groups to a broad population generally later, than in areas where there was …
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We demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U.S. politicians. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as well as common seat locations on the chamber floor, are consistent predictors of voting behavior. For...
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political mechanisms: we study legislative bargaining, lobbying, and electoral competition, as well as the possible interactions …
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smoothing. Second deficits can be eliminated through a fiscal reform, but such a reform may only take place after a" delay …
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This paper develops a political-economic model of fiscal policy - one in which government resources are a common property' out of which interest groups can finance expenditures on their preferred items. This setup has striking macroeconomic implications. Transfers are higher than a benevolent...
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capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …
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