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Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies
Chang, Howard - 2007
Under most federal environmental laws and some health and safety laws, states may apply for "primacy," that is, authority to implement and enforce federal law, through a process known as "authorization." Some observers fear that states use authorization to adopt more lax policies in a regulatory...
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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
Hatfield, John William - 2008
We revisit the classic problem of tax competition in the context of federal nations, and derive a positive theory of partial decentralization. A capital poor median voter wants to use capital taxes to provide public goods. This results in redistributive public good provision. As a consequence,...
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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...
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Balancing Federalism : The Impact of Decentralizing School Accountability
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Saenz-Armstrong, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
change in policy allows estimation of the impact of altered federalism. By looking at how states reacted to their enhanced … with significantly lower student achievement growth. As a result, this readjustment of federalism to decision making by … lower levels appeared to lower national achievement. The snapshot of federalism impacts here is a lower bound on the effects …
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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within …
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Urban Sprawl and Social Capital : Evidence from Indonesian Cities
Civelli, Andrea; Gaduh, Arya; Rothenberg, Alexander D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...
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Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2006
In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital's decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television (and radio), I exploit plausibly exogenous...
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the European Union …, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …
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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2010
international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the European Union …, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462402
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Moderate Inflation
Dornbusch, Rudiger - 1991
Inflation persists at moderate rates of 15-30 percent in all the countries that successfully reduced triple digit inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. In this paper we first set out theories of...
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