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Mechtenberg, Lydia - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

politicians stick to the manifesto of their party. The current paper provides a theoretical explanation for this phenomenonthat … does not assume politicians or voters to be ideologists. I explore an environment where both voters and politicians always …

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State

Charap, Joshua; Harm, Christian - 1999

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

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Public governance of central banks: an approach from new institutional economics

Oritani, Yoshiharu - Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich <Basel> - 2010

wirft auf die öffentliche Verwaltung der Zentralbanken. Erstens Williamson's Theorie der "Governance als Unversehrtheit …" (Rechtschaffenheit) ist die interne Verwaltung der Zentralbanken angewendet. Moe's Theorie der "öffentlichen Bürokratie" ist das Konzept … der Unabhängigkeit der Zentralbank angewandt. Zweitens wenden wir Agency-Theorie, die... …

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Men, Women, and the BallotWoman Suffrage in theUnited States

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2009

Woman surage led to the greatest enfranchisement in the history of the United States.Before World War I, however, surage states remained almost exclusively conned to theAmerican West. The reasons for this pioneering role of the West are still unclear. Studyingthe timing of woman surage adoption...

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Rent-Seeking Distortions and Fiscal Procyclicality

Ilzetzki, Ethan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Recent research has demonstrated that while government expenditures are countercyclical inmost industrialized countries, they tend to be procyclical in developing countries. We develop adynamic political economy model to explain this phenomenon. In the model, public expendituresprovide insurance...

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Kosher Pork

Drazen, Allan; Ilzetzki, Ethan - University of Maryland <College Park, Md.> / Department …; … - 2011

policymaking in times of crisis. In this paper we presentan alternative view. When agents are heterogeneous in their ideology and …

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Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? Evidence from Migration Patterns across the Indian States

Libman, Aleksandr M.; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Yadav, … - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2011

The aim of the paper is to study the relation between the demand for human rights and foreconomic prosperity. It analyzes the demand not, as it is often done in the literature, from the“voice” perspective (political activity), but rather looks at the “exit” perspective...

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Population Aging, the Composition of Government Spending, and Endogenous Economic Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium

Kuehnel, Johanna - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2011

This paper introduces a democratic voting process into an OLG economyin order to analyze the effects of a rising old-age dependency ratio on the composition ofgovernment spending and endogenous economic growth. Forward-looking agents vote eachperiod on the public policy mix between productive...

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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM INDIA

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens is a key issue in politicaleconomy. Here, we develop a model based on the solution of political agency problems.Having a more informed and politically active electorate strengthens incentives for governmentsto be responsive. This...

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Leader behaviour and the natural resource curse

Caselli, Francesco; Cunningham, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse,in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy’stotal value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rentswill alter the incentives of a political leader....

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