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Federalism with and without Political Centralization : China versus Russia
Blanchard, Olivier - 2000
question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … researchers have argued that federalism could play a central role in development. We agree, but with an important caveat. We … believe the experience of Russia indicates that another ingredient is crucial, namely political centralization …
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Experimentation in Federal Systems
Callander, Steven - 2013
We present a model where heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. Since districts learn from each other, the first-best requires that policy experiments converge so that innovations are useful also for neighbors. However, the equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459061
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Political Partisanship and Remote Work : Evidence from U.S. States
Cowan, Benjamin; Garcia, Kairon Shayne D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
to after the pandemic once a measure of political partisanship (Democratic vote share in the 2020 presidential election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056160
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How Much Are the Poor Losing From Tax Competition?
Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper quantifies the unequal welfare effects of tax competition. I derive the optimal tax and transfer schedules in a free mobility union composed of countries that can either compete or set a uniform federal tax rate. In the absence of fiscal coordination, governments internalize that any...
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Organizing a Kingdom
Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...
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Majority Choice of Taxation and Redistribution in a Federation
Calabrese, Stephen - 2018
We provide a model with a federal government and multiple local governments, the former with power to levy an income tax for redistribution, and the latter choosing a local income tax, property tax, lump-sum tax or subsidy, and a local public good. Policy is set by majority choice at each tier...
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Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
not run in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a relatively representative electoral constituency, in the general election of July 23 …
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Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems - Evidence from French Elections
Dano, Kevin; Ferlenga, Francesco; Galasso, Vincenzo; Le … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In … practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points …
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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Keep your Enemies Closer : Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
Di Tella, Rafael; Kotti, Randy; Le Pennec-Çaldichoury, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
content of 9,000 primary and general election websites of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, 2002-2016, as well …
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