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Democracy and innovation
Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672225
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Elected vs appointed public law enforcers
LANGLAIS, Eric; Obidzinski, Marie - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2013
This paper revisits the issue of law enforcement and the design of monetary sanctions when the public law enforcer's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime deterrence. We …rst consider the case of an elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992370
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Elected vs appointed public law enforcers
Langlais, Eric; Obidzinski, Marie - Centre de Recherche sur les Stratégies Économiques … - 2013
This paper revisits the issue of law enforcement and the design of monetary sanctions when the public law enforcer's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime deterrence. We first consider the case an elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690500
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Electoral Systems and Economic Growth: What is the Importance of the Proportionality Degree?
Alfano, M. Rosaria; Baraldi, A. Laura - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2014
Previous empirical studies analysing the effect of electoral systems on growth lack unanimous answers as they miss-specify mixed systems in the empirical setting, that is, they neglect to consider the proportionality degree of mixed electoral systems. This work supplies the missing answers by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757309
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Why foreign aid does (not) improve democracy?
Menard, Audrey - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2012
Foreign aid has become closely connected to the development of democracy since the nineties. This paper analyses the … democracy effects of aid accounting for this change in donors’ criteria. This approach contributes to the literature by … data model using data from 52 African countries between 1997 and 2008. I find that aid favours democracy. However when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584066
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Inequality in democracy: Insights from an empirical analysis of political dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Beja Jr, Edsel; Mendoza, Ronald U.; Venida, Victor S.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70 percent of jurisdiction-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114449
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Why the Poor Do not Expropriate the Rich in Democracies: A New Argument.
Roemer, J.E. - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005664089
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Why the Poor Do not Expropriate the Rich in Democracies: A New Argument.
Roemer, J.E. - California Davis - Institute of Governmental Affairs - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656798
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Taxation and political stability
Mutascu, Mihai; Tiwari, Aviral; Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The present study is, in particular, an attempt to test the relationship between tax level and political stability by using some economic control variables and to see the relationship among government effectiveness, corruption, and GDP. For the purpose, we used the GMM (1991) and GMM system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650683
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Estabilidad política y tributación
Estrada, Fernando; Mutascu, Mihai; Tiwari, Aviral - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The present study is, in particular, an attempt to test the relationship between tax level and political stability by using some economic control variables and to see the relationship among government effectiveness, corruption, and GDP. For the purpose, we used the Vector Autoregression (VAR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220107