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We study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In our model,the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and ear-marked allocations to designated public projects. Each project provides random benefits to one of many interest groups. The...
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Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...
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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and … effects from joining GATT/WTO can still gain in terms of welfare, due to lower import prices and higher export demand. …
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equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small … gain in terms of welfare, due to beneficial terms-of-trade effects. …
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equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small … gain in terms of welfare, due to beneficial terms-of-trade effects. …
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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and … effects from joining GATT/WTO can still gain in terms of welfare, due to lower import prices and higher export demand. …
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