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Liessem, Verena - 2003

election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts … Verträge sollen die durch die Wahl ausgeübte Kontrolle der Politiker unterstützen.Es werden zwei Arten von Anreizverträgen …

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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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Three Essays on Heterogeneous Workers in Imperfect Labour Markets

Manger, Christian - 2010

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Arbeiten, die unterschiedliche Auswirkungen von Arbeitsmarktunvollkommenheiten auf heterogene Arbeiter betrachten. Die erste Arbeit zeigt anhand eines spieltheoretischen Modells, dass lediglich Koordinations- und Informationsfriktionen...

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

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

the maintenance of a fixed exchange rate regime. Another political factor is electoral: as an election approaches, the … of a country’s currency peg. An impending election increases the conditional likelihood of staying on a peg by about 8 … percent, while the aftershock of an election conversely increases the conditional probability of going off a peg by 4 percent. …

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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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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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