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Sustaining fixed rates: The political economy of currency pegs in Latin America

Blomberg, S. Brock; Frieden, Jeffry; Stein, Ernesto - 2005

Government exchange rate regime choice is constrained by both political and economic factors. One political factor is the role of special interests: the larger the tradable sectors exposed to international competition, the less likely is the maintenance of a fixed exchange rate regime. Another...

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Incentive Contracts for Politicians

Liessem, Verena - 2003

The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts...

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Argentina: the 1997 parliamentary elections (lower house)

Lauga, Martín - 1998

This article analizes the 26 October 1997 Argentinian elections (partial renewal of the lower chamber) from a … historical-comparative perspective. The article also examines the consequences of the elections results on the development of the …

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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions

Beilharz, Hans-Jörg - 2005

We consider misconceptions about the functioning of the economy as one possible explanation for the emergence of crises in democracies. Furthermore, we study a political process which may lead to successful reform. First of all, we show that voters can make inefficient decisions concerning...

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Essays on Budgetary Institutions: Theory and Evidence

Amoroso, Nicolas Emiliano - 2006

The dissertation offers an analysis of the role of budgetary institutions on the determination of fiscal outcomes. In the second chapter I provide a theoretical model that rationalizes differences in fiscal outcomes of two countries that are supposed to obey the same set of numerical constraints...

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Political Economy in a globalized world ; How politics, culture, and institutional incentives shape economic and political outcomes

Gehring, Kai - 2015

Diese kumulative Dissertation besteht aus drei Abschnitten. I. Geopolitics, Aid and Growth Wir untersuchen den Effekt kurzfristiger politischer Motive auf die Effektivität von Entwicklungshilfe. Dabei testen wir, ob der Effekt der Hilfe auf Wirtschaftswachstum reduziert wird durch den Anteil...

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Norms in bargaining : evidence from government formation in Spain

Fujiwara, Thomas; Sanz, Carlos

Spanish elections in which two parties tie in the number of seats. The party with slightly more general ... …

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Organisational climate, organisational practices and service delivery in a local government / Kedisaletse Doreen Ross.

Ross, Kedisaletse Doreen - 2009

new relations and to improve service, the municipality shouldcontinuously evaluate the human resource management practices … between human resource practices andorganisational climate in the municipality.In Article 1 and Article 3 employees from the … municipality were targeted, and in Article 2 citizensfrom the municipality were targeted separately. The study popUlation from the …

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Dependence analysis of required financial means of czech municipalities on population

Řehořová, Pavla - 2012

This article is devoted to the analysis of dependence of total required financial means of Czech municipalities necessary for solving all current problems based on population, let us say on required CZK per person within the municipalities. This analysis was realized within the research and...

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