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basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as … sources is used. The index is composed of four variables: government revenues, foreign currency reserves, export of goods and …:[http://finmin.nic.in/WorkingPaper/Index%20of%20Government%20Economic%20Power.pdf]. …
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This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …
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This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...
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, allowing it to explain some so far little understood differences between markets and government. The policy implications … strengthen the case against national planning, selective industrial policies, and government ownership of enterprises, but weaken …
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Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...
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offering better access to finance, infrastructure, technical and planning expertise, advocacy through government marketing and …
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data on government-firm relations from eighty countries to contribute empirical evidence on the debate. We find that … multinational firms (both foreign and local) are indeed relatively influential over government, and find no evidence that foreign …
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