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Mixed motives : an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002
Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one's vote may …In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … multinomial logit with country-specific unobserved heteroge-neity, using roll-call votes on the final passage of ILO conventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447398
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The ratification of ILO conventions : a failure time analysis
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2000
There are over 180 ILO conventions in many areas of labour law, industrial relations and social security, but they are … industrialised countries, the ratification of ILO conventions is shown to depend on internal political factors such as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444515
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Bayesian estimation of Cox model with non-nested random effects : an application to the ratification of ILO conventions by developing countries
Horny, Guillaume; Boockmann, Bernhard; Djurdjevic, Dragana - 2005
We use a multivariate hazard model for the analysis of data on the timing of ratifications of different conventions. The model accounts for two random effects, one at the country level and the other at the convention level. We use a semi-parametric Bayesian approach, based on the partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002821582
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Partisan politics in corporate tax competition
Osterloh, Steffen; Debus, Marc - 2009
This paper studies the effects of political factors, mainly partisanship, on corporate taxes in the past 30 years – a period of intensifying competitive pressure in Europe. Extending the Zodrow-Mieszkowski model by decision-makers who have ideological preferences yields the hypothesis that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914213
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A political economy of China‘s export restrictions on rare earth elements
Pothen, Frank; Fink, Kilian - 2015
We investigate why governments restrict exports of exotic raw materials taking rare earth elements as a case study. Trade restrictions on exotic materials do not have immediate macroeconomic effects. Relocating rare earth intensive industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510603
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The effect of ILO minimum age conventions on child labour and school attendance
Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002137158
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Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do : evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Streif, Frank - 2015
A sizeable literature studies whether governments strategically interact with each other through policy-diffusion, learning, fiscal and yardstick competition. This paper asks whether, in the presence of direct democratic institutions, spatial interactions additionally result from voters' direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308409
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Die Psychologie irrationaler Wirtschaftspolitik am Beispiel des Reformstaus
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000
incentives for rational reasoning concerning their voting decision. The explanatory power of irrational behaviour is demonstrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444514
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Exposure to television and individual beliefs : evidence from a natural experiment
Hennighausen, Tanja - 2012 - This version: October 2012
Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception of West German television in the former German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668468
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Do personal characteristics of finance ministers affect the development of public debt?
Moessinger, Marc-Daniel - 2012
Using a unique dataset of personal characteristics of national finance ministers in Europe (1980 – 2010), I show that especially a finance minister’s experience affects the development of public debt. Both a finance minister’s experience gained in office and his political experience have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658020