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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli - 2010
Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759639
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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
Chen, Cuicui - 2016
expected. International public goods are particularly challenging because of the strong asymmetries among nations. We identify … critical international public good. Having examined the Nordhaus Climate Club proposal, we test the Alliance/Nash Equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992148
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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
Desmet, Klaus - 2018
This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916911
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Openness, Country Size and the Government
Alesina, Alberto F.; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021
This paper shows that smaller countries have larger public sectors as a share of GDP, and are also more open to trade. These empirical observations are consistent with recent theoretical models explaining country formation and break up
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223062
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What We Spend and What We Get : Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention
Witte, Ann Dryden; Witt, Robert - 2021
In this paper, we consider a number of issues regarding crime prevention and criminal justice. We begin by considering how crime is measured and present both general and specific evidence on the level of crime in a variety of countries. Crime is pervasive and varies substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225388
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The Size and Scope of Government : Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
We try to demonstrate how economists may engage in research on comparative politics, relating the size and composition of government spending to the political system. A Downsian model of electoral competition and forward-looking voting indicates that majoritarian -- as opposed to proportional --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239161
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124538
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Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture
Moser, Petra - 2021
Feeding the world’s growing population is one of the most critical policy challenges for the 21st century. With … promising path meet the nutrient needs for future generations. At the same time, the increasing variability in the world …, there is an active discussion on the returns to public and private spending in agricultural R&D, and many of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309902
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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
Gumpert, Anna - 2011
This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117565
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Assessing International Efficiency
Heathcote, Jonathan - 2013
allocation of resources across developed countries at the business cycle frequency. Here we discuss how evidence on international … quantity comovement, exchange rates, asset prices, and international portfolio holdings can be used to assess efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083395