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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009 - Rev. version
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894063
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Legal-political factors and the historical evolution of the finance-growth link
Bordo, Michael D.; Rousseau, Peter L. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003261429
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The political economy of financial crisis policy
O'Keeffe, Mícheál; Terzi, Alessio - 2015
Government intervention to stabilise financial systems in times of banking crises ultimately involves political decisions. This paper sheds light on how certain political variables influence policy choices during banking crises and hence have an impact on fiscal outlays. We employ cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292287
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Social mobility and political regimes : intergenerational mobility in Hungary, 1949-2017
Bukowski, Paweł; Clark, Gregory; Gáspár, Attila; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792949
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Agrarian distress: role of political regimes in Kerala
Varghese, Ance Teresa - 2022
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Citizens' protests : causes and consequences : a research on regime change and revolutionary entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita
Gilli, Mario; Giorgini, Filippo - 2022
Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens' protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing...
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Higher education and mortality : legacies of an authoritarian college contraction
González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; … - 2023 - This version: September 2023
We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching...
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The financial performance of public enterprises in Pakistan
Morgan, David R. - 1977
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Institutions and forest management : a case study from Swat, Pakistan
Kruseman, Gideon <jr.> (contributor);  … - 2008
Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … limiting bottlenecks to sustainable forest management in Pakistan. De facto property rights are not as simple as denoted by … this dilemma to the management regime of the forest in North west Pakistan, we identify at the one end of the spectrum the …
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India - Pakistan trade
Taneja, Nisha - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339940