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Geography and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data
Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2018
Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity differences across countries using high-resolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920893
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Assessing International Efficiency
Heathcote, Jonathan - 2013
This paper is structured in three parts. The first part outlines the methodological steps, involving both theoretical and empirical work, for assessing whether an observed allocation of resources across countries is efficient. The second part applies the methodology to the long-run allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083395
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The Political Economy of Weak Treaties
Battaglini, Marco - 2016
puzzle in standard economic models. To study this phenomenon, we propose a positive theory of IEAs in which the political … (might not be implemented in full). The theory also provides a new perspective for understanding investments in green …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976975
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On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
Weitzman, Martin - 2016
WCA framework can be accepted in the first place, then voting on a single internationally- binding minimum carbon price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979375
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The Determinants of the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange-Rate Regimes
Edwards, Sebastian - 2021
In recent years, analysts and policy makers alike have been evaluating the nexus between exchange rates and macroeconomic stability. Among the most important questions is why have some countries adopted rigid, including fixed, exchange-rate paper addresses this question from a political economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237257
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148374
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Political Instability, Political Weakness and Inflation : An Empirical Analysis
Edwards, Sebastian; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
In this paper we analyze empirically the most important implications of two family political economy models of inflation: the "myopic? government approach and the "weak" government approach. In myopic government models inflation is the deliberate outcome of politicians strategic behavior, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244087
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The Supply of Environmentalism
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013
Long before economics turned to psychology, environmentalists were nudging and framing and pushing their cause like highly gifted amateur psychologists. Their interventions seem to have changed behavior by altering beliefs, norms and preferences, but because psychological interventions are often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077217
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Political Economy in a Changing World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power and in economic structure. We focus on the Markov Voting Equilibria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080197
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Boone, Peter David - 2010
Critics of foreign aid programs have long argued that poverty reflects government failure. In this paper I analyze the effectiveness of foreign aid programs to gain insights into political regimes in aid recipient countries. My analytical framework shows how three stylized political/economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763717