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This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...
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, allowing it to explain some so far little understood differences between markets and government. The policy implications … strengthen the case against national planning, selective industrial policies, and government ownership of enterprises, but weaken …
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Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...
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offering better access to finance, infrastructure, technical and planning expertise, advocacy through government marketing and …
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data on government-firm relations from eighty countries to contribute empirical evidence on the debate. We find that … multinational firms (both foreign and local) are indeed relatively influential over government, and find no evidence that foreign …
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Die gängige Begründung – basierend auf der bahnbrechenden Arbeit Rokkans – dafür, dass ein spezifisches Wahlsystem bevorzugt wird, ist, dass die Verhältniswahl („proportional respresentation“ oder „PR“) von einer zersplitterten Rechte eingeführt wurde, um ihre Klasseninteressen...
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. Aging is already placing a burden on government finances, and Japan's ability to confront the negative fiscal implications …
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restriction (or punishment) used by presidents when in government. …
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e-business and ended by e-government. Firms and consumers use internet to provide information and perform many of their … through e-government. In Spain in order to achieve the optimal technological level, municipalities and Autonomous Communities … (AC), have used financial aid from the Spanish Central Government and European Union institutions. This paper examines the …
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We present a novel argument demonstrating that when trade is characterized by uncertainty the comparative advantages doctrine is misleading and a positive level of diversification is growth enhancing. Applying a result developed in the mathematical biological literature, we show that, in...
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