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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009
This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247930
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Political institutions and street protests in Latin America
Machado, Fabiana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009
This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. This relationship is explored...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247932
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The effects of punishment of crime in Colombia on deterrence, incapacitation, and human capital formation
Guarin, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - 2013
Using individual data on persons arrested in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, this paper assesses whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010244876
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Disagreements in society over linear vs. over nonlinear labour-income tax schedules
Ivanov, Asen - 2024
I investigate numerically the following question: Given that individuals with different wages disagree over the optimal labour-income tax schedule, how would such disagreements be affected if society restricted itself to using linear tax schedules? I find that there would be (i) a decrease in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015095131
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Group bargaining and conflict
Quérou, Nicolas - 2010
protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we … their relative size on the profitability of negotiated agreements. -- Bargaining ; Conflict ; Agency Problem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747115
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Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014 - Draft: February 2014
We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350454
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Oil and civil conflict : on and off (shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 2017
We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596256
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Effort provision and incentivisation in tullock group-contests with many groups : an explicit characterisation
Bosco, Davide; Gilli, Mario - 2024
We study effort provision and incentivisation in a Tullock group-contest with m ≥ 2 groups that differ in size. A novel algorithmic procedure is presented that, under a symmetry assumption, explicitly characterises the equilibrium. Endogenous, optimal incentivisation schemes are then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552943
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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution
Pérez Oviedo, 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/10011600156
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Crime time : how ambient light affects crime
Domínguez, Patricio; Asahi, Kenzo - 2019
This paper studies the effect of ambient light on crime, taking advantage of the daylight saving time (DST) policy, which imposes exogenous variations in daylight exposure at specific hours of the day. The paper uses a rich administrative database managed by Chile's national police, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008399