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Mauleon, Ana; Roehl, Nils; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2015

The objective of the paper is to analyze the formation of social networks where individuals are allowed to engage in several groups at the same time. These group structures are interpreted here as social networks. Each group is supposed to have specific rules or constitutions governing which...

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The economic effects of constitutions : do budget institutions make forms of government more alike?

Ardanaz, Martin; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2013

According to an influential theoretical argument, presidential systems tend to present smaller governments because the separation between those who decide the size of the fiscal purse and those who allocate it creates incentives for lower public expenditures. In practice, forms of government...

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Disentangling fiscal effects of local constitutions

Kantorowicz, Jarosław; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

We apply the difference-in-discontinuities design to disentangle the fiscal effects of the governance system conditional on electoral systems. We take advantage of a natural experiment, which involves two institutional reforms at the local level in Poland. The first reform introduced two...

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Pathways to a new eco-social contract in Nepal : judicial interpretations of constitutional guarantees and their implementation

Siwakoti, Sachin - 2024

Nepal's democratic transition led to the promulgation of its Constitution in 2015 that guarantees transformative rights … across economic, social, cultural, environmental and developmental spheres. The Constitution signifies a shift in the … following the promulgation of the new Constitution. It also assesses their implementation status and identifies obstacles in the …

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Normative fiscal policy and growth : some quantitative implications for the Chilean economy

Espino, Emilio; González Rozada, Martín - 2013

This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative implications of optimal taxation in a developing economy when economic growth is endogenously determined. We differentiate this class of economies from a developed economy in two aspects: informal sector is quantitatively significant and...

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The macroeconomic cost of climate volatility

Alessandri, Piergiorgio; Mumtaz, Haroon - 2021

We study the impact of climate volatility on economic growth exploiting data on 133 countries between 1960 and 2005. We show that the conditional (ex ante) volatility of annual temperatures increased steadily over time, rendering climate conditions less predictable across countries, with...

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Implications of the fertilizer-subsidy programme on income growth, productivity, and employment in Ghana

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Gafa, Dede; Abubakari, Maliha; … - 2020

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The economic impact of weather and climate

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period...

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Indian economy : selected methodological advances

Joseph, Mathew; Singh, Karan; Dash, Ranjan Kumar; … - 2011

This paper develops tools to examine selected major issues in the Indian economy. The study computes the potential growth rate of the economy and the agricultural sector, extends the analysis of the fiscal stimulus and its effects, and estimates the short and long run elasticities of India's...

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Beyond the crisis : prospects for emerging Europe

Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2010

This paper assesses the impact of the 2008-09 global financial and economic crisis on the medium-term growth prospects of the countries of central and eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, which began an economic transition about two decades ago. We use cross-country growth regressions,...

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