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Democracy, property rights, income equality, and corruption

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2011

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

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Move to markets? An empirical analysis of privatization in developing countries

Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna; Munger, Michael C. - 2002

We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle-income developing countries. The theoretical perspective turns on the concept of net political benefits, which in our model is the primary determinant of privatization policies....

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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth

Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001

In this paper, we assume that redistribution modifies the community structure of an economy and generates both intra and intergenerational mobility. In a world in which neighbourhood attributes and family backgrounds are important to determine the investment effort and the productivity of...

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Clean or dirty energy: Evidence on a renewable energy resource curse

Gennaioli, Caterina; Tavoni, Massimo - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide an assessment of the potential for resource curse in the renewable energy sector. Taking a political economy approach, we analyze the link between public support schemes for renewable energy and the potential scope for rent seeking and corruption. The insights...

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Autocracies and development in a global economy: A tale of two elites

Akerman, Anders; Larsson, Anna; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have done remarkably well, others such as the Latin American...

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Institutions and the Environment: Existing Evidence and Future Directions

Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica - 2016

In this review we synthetize the existing contributions that use econometric approaches to examine the influence of institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the relationship between institutions and various response...

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Oil revenues, ethnic fragmentation and political transition of authoritarian regimes

Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2012

Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple...

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Bounded rationality and voting decisions exploring a 160-year period

Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2012

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848-2009), we investigate whether a higher level of complexity leads to increased reliance on expert knowledge. We find that when more referenda are held on the same day, constituents are more likely to refer...

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The evolution of renewable energy policy in OECD countries: Aggregate indicators and determinants

Nicolli, Francesco; Vona, Francesco - 2012

This paper proposes different methods to aggregate heterogeneous policies for renewable energy. We compare time-varying indicators built using principal component analysis with average-based indicators. The main goal of the paper is to account for the evolution of both types of policy indicators...

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Building SSPs for climate policy analysis: A scenario elicitation methodology to map the space of possible future challenges to mitigation and adaptation

Rozenberg, Julie; Guivarch, Céline; Lempert, Robert; … - 2012

The scientific community is now developing a new set of scenarios, referred to as Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) to replace the SRES scenarios. To be used to investigate adaptation and mitigation, SSPs need to be contrasted along two axes: challenges to mitigation, and challenges to...

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