We examine the impact of e-procurement on economic growth. To this end, we exploit an ambitious implementation of large-scale mandatory e-procurement platform in New South Wales and Western Australia. By matching pre-reform growth dynamics and its covariates with the rest of the world, we...

We discuss the contribution of autocratic tendencies in democratically elected political leaders to the economic growth of developed economies. To this end, we exploit the unique election of Sir Charles Court as state premier of Western Australia in 1975 to estimate the contribution of...

The Synthetic Control Method has become a widely used tool in estimating the causal impact of policies, shocks and interventions of interest on economic and social outcomes. The technique has become particularly popular in estimating the effect of these shocks on a single treated unit. As a...

We examine the effect of political factionalism in the presence of weak state capacity on long-term economic growth. To this end, we exploit the 1958 civil uprising between Maronite Christian and Sunni Muslim factions in Lebanon to estimate the impact of factious tensions on long-term growth. To...