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The Political Economy of Unilateral Trade Liberalization : The Case of Chile

Edwards, Sebastian; Lederman, Daniel - 2021

Chile has become a model for reforming economies throughout the world. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the political and economic circumstances surrounding Chile's unilateral trade liberalization during five stages (covering the period 1974-1990s),each being characterized by different...

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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …

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China and India : Reforms and the Response: How Differently Have the Economies Behaved

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different … goods and services and of gross fixed capital formation. Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India … higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India. We also find that China usually has a lower CV, namely a more stable …

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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India

Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014

Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …

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Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

Ludwig, Jens - 2011

Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue greater use should be made of experiments that identify behavioral mechanisms that are central to clearly specified policy questions,...

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Coasean Bargaining to Address Environmental Externalities

Libecap, Gary D. - 2016

I examine Ronald Coase's criticism of standard regulatory and tax policies to address environmental externalities. I elaborate some of Coase's key points and discuss opportunities for Coasean exchange as an alternative mitigation approach. Regulation, tax, and Coasean exchange, such as through...

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Political Alignment, Attitudes Toward Government and Tax Evasion

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2018

We ask whether attitudes toward government play a causal role in the evasion of U.S. personal income taxes. We use individual-level survey data to demonstrate a link between sharing the party of the president and trust in the administration generally and opinions on taxation and spending policy,...

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Pandemic Lockdown : The Role of Government Commitment

Moser, Christian - 2020

This paper studies optimal lockdown policies in a dynamic economy without government commitment. A lockdown imposes a cap on labor supply, which lowers economic output but improves health prospects. A government would like to commit to limit the extent of future lockdowns in order to increase...

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A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown

Alvarez, Fernando - 2020

We study the optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing the output costs of the lockdown. We use the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner's dynamic control problem. The optimal policy depends on the...

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A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

North, Douglass C. - 2007

societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics … must be a fundamental part of the development process. This paper develops an integrated theory of economics and politics …

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