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Populism and Neopopulism in Latin America: Clientelism, Trade Union Organisation and Electoral Support in Mexico and Argentina in the ‘90s
Ronchi, Veronica - 2007
ideal: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, (Mexico 1988-1994) and Carlos Menem (Argentina 1989-1999). Neopopulism is based on an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312402
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The Neoliberal Myth in Latin America: The Cases of Mexico and Argentina in the ‘90s
Ronchi, Veronica - 2007
describing how these policies affected the most important macroeconomic indexes, with special emphasis on Argentina and Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312607
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Multilateral bargaining in networks: On the prevalence of inefficiencies
Lee, Joosung - 2015
We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out their communication links with upfront transfers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307292
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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution
Perez, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324912
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Farsighted Stability with Heterogeneous Expectations
Bloch, Francis; van den Nouweland, Anne - 2017
This paper analyzes farsighted stable sets when agents have heterogeneous expectations over the dominance paths. We consider expectation functions satisfying two properties of path-persistence and consistency. We show that farsighted stable sets with heterogeneous expectations always exist and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816734
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Contest with Attack and Defence: Does Negative Campaigning Increase or Decrease Voters’ Turnout?
Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2005
We present a general model of two players contest with two types of efforts. Contrary to the classical models of contest, where each player chooses a unique effort, and where the outcome depends on the efforts of all the players, contestants are allowed to reduce the effort of the opponent....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312400
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An Empirical Contribution to the Debate on Corruption,Democracy and Environmental Policy
Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2005
Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants … determinant of environmental policies, while democracy has a very limited impact. Further on, we discuss our results in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312427
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On Coalition Formation with Heterogeneous Agents
Caparrós, Alejandro; Hammoudi, Abdelhakim; Tazdaït, Tarik - 2004
We propose a framework to analyze coalition formation with heterogeneous agents. Existing literature defines stability conditions that do not ensure that, once an agent decides to sign an agreement, the enlarged coalition is feasible. Defining the concepts of refraction and exchanging, we set up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324949
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North-South Climate Change Negotiations: a Sequential Game with Asymmetric Information
Caparrós, Alejandro; Pereau, Jean-Christophe; … - 2003
This article determines the conditions under which the Southern countries should act together, or separately, while negotiating with the North about climate change policy and about the conditions for future Southern engagement. The paper models the international negotiations with complete and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325037
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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach
Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003
This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its "social capital" by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325082