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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934658
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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934664
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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration
Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes …, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363276
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Keeping Dictators Honest: the Role of Population Concentration
Do, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2009
In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes …, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. around the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004018
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R; Do, Quoc-Anh - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that spatial distance between citizens and the seat of political power reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that keeping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936505
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R; Do, Quoc-Anh - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that spatial distance between citizens and the seat of political power reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that keeping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936507
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Value of Political Connections in Social Networks
Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen-Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang; Nguyen, … - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of social-network based political connections on firm value. We focus on the networks of university classmates and alumni among directors of U.S. public firms and congressmen. Comparing firms connected to elected versus defeated politicians in the Regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549027
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the case when we use the variation induced by the exogenous location of a state’s centroid to instrument for the concentration of population around the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549028
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Creation and Violation of Institutional Equilibrium in Redistribution Systems
Wawrosz, Petr - In: Politická ekonomie 2011 (2011) 4, pp. 526-546
solved. For instance the theory does not give exact answer to why particular institutions (formal and informal norms) occur … interest to establish a structure of institutions (institutional equilibrium) helping them to protect their position. The paper … in a redistribution system is described and it is shown how institutions help to facilitate the process. Then the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293712
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The formality in property rights: determinant in the military strategy of armed actors
Guijo, Andrea P. Velásquez - Households in Conflict Network - 2008
The causes of internal conflicts are not easy to identify, and in order to understand its dynamics it is important to determine the factors that influence its persistence. The appropriation of economic resources has been identified as a cause of the conflict; however, asset appropriation may not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767758