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Dynamic Savings Choices with Disagreements

Cao, Dan - 2016

We study a flexible dynamic savings game in continuous time, where decision makers rotate in and out of power. These agents value spending more highly while in power creating a time-inconsistency problem. We provide a sharp characterization of Markov equilibria. Our analysis proceeds by...

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Measuring the Tolerance of the State : Theory and Application to Protest

Andirin, Veli; Neggers, Yusuf; Shadmehr, Mehdi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the regime's tolerance as the...

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Mistrust, Misperception, and Misunderstanding : Imperfect Information and Conflict Dynamics

Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-degenerate higher-order beliefs) can lead to conflict and drive its dynamics. We develop our analysis in the context of three classic … learning about the opponent's type, as well as the possibility of conflict spirals, traps, and cycles; and a deterrence model …. We relate these models to the empirical literature and to current and historical episodes of conflict …

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Fighting Climate Change : International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Fabre, Adrien; Kruse, Tobias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key perceptions...

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Dynamic Collective Action and the Power of Large Numbers

Battaglini, Marco; Palfrey, Thomas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Collective action is a dynamic process where individuals in a group assess over time the benefits and costs of participating toward the success of a collective goal. Early participation improves the expectation of success and thus stimulates the subsequent participation of other individuals who...

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Missing Discussions : Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition

Gitmez, A. Arda; Robinson, James A.; Shadmehr, Mehdi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Institutional constraints to counter potential abuses in the use of political power have been viewed as essential to well functioning political institutions and good public policy outcomes in the Western World since the time of ancient Greece. A sophisticated intellectual tradition emerged to...

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Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution : Cross-country Evidence

Maréchal, Michel André; Cohn, Alain; Yusof, Jeffrey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus on redistribution arises from the inherent class...

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Corruption as a Shared Dilemma : Survey Evidence from Legislators and Citizens in Three Countries

Fisman, Raymond; Ferroni, Matteo F.; Golden, Miriam A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We conduct parallel surveys of legislators and citizens in three countries to study their tolerance for corruption. In Italy, Colombia, and Pakistan legislators and citizens respond similarly to hypothetical scenarios involving trade-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both...

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Logrolling in Congress

Battaglini, Marco; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study vote trading among U.S. Congress members. By tracking roll-call votes within bills across five legislatures and politicians' personal connections made during the school years, we document a propensity of connected legislators to vote together that depends on how salient the bill is to...

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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence

Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a regression discontinuity design, we show that an...

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