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The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation
Kuminoff, Nicolai - 2010
Households "sort" across neighborhoods according to their wealth and their preferences for public goods, social characteristics, and commuting opportunities. The aggregation of these individual choices in markets and in other institutions influences the supply of amenities and local public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138319
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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
Hatfield, John William - 2009
We revisit the classic problem of tax competition in the context of federal nations, and derive a positive theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765361
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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets
Casella, Alessandra - 2012
We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...
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Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?
Alesina, Alberto F.; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Many countries, especially developing ones, follow procyclical fiscal polices, namely spending goes up (taxes go down) in booms and spending goes down (taxes go up) in recessions. We provide an explanation for this suboptimal fiscal policy based upon political distortions and incentives for...
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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2014
This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit the exogenous timing of variations in the level of ethnic heterogeneity due to the creation of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047014
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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections : Evidence from China
Padró i Miquel, Gerard - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089285
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Looking Beyond the Incumbent : The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes
Chong, Alberto - 2011
Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger … parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if … copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117216
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Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on Pac Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring
Conley, Dalton - 2010
Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process. Using a legislator's offspring sex mix as an exogenous variable, we employ a two-stage least squares estimation procedure to predict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759374
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"Sick of Local Government Corruption? Vote Islamic"
Henderson, J. Vernon; Kuncoro, Ari - 2021
Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. Corruption … corruption and whether specific local politics, over and above the effects of local culture, affect corruption. We have a firm … responsibilities to local democratically elected governments. We have a second data set for 2004 on corruption at the end of the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217237
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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
Di Tella, Rafael - 2014
corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …. The empirical pattern of beliefs within countries is consistent with this explanation: people who perceive corruption to … government in economic matters). Finally, we present a model explaining the corruption-left connection. It exploits the fact that …
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