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Vote-buying and growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762209
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Economic Growth and Institutional Reform in Modern Monarchies and Republics : A Historical Cross-Country Perspective 1820-2000
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2008
Standard theoretical arguments suggest that republics ought to grow faster than monarchies and experience lower transitional costs following reforms. We employ a panel of 27 countries observed from 1820-2000 to explore whether regime types and institutional reforms have differential growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724722
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Creating capitalism : politics, reforms, and economic performance ; an econometric analysis of six countries from 1989-1999
Wykoff, Frank C. - 2001
Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an econometric model of the interplay between economic reform measures, political decisions and economic performance. Several key hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568721
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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Economic growth in the Potterian economy
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel C. - 2010
We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434312
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The political economy of redistribution and (in) efficiency in Latin America and The Caribbean
Altube, Matias Guizzo; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2023
“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … outcomes (including the degree of redistribution and others). We postulate that each configuration of social outcomes emerges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546295
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Why has Latin America sped up ahead of the Philippines in economic and political reform?
Alonso-Terme, Rosa - 2015
This paper compares trends in key economic, political and social development outcomes in the Philippines with those of Latin America, particularly since the 1990s. To do so, it uses standard indicators of development, including measures of institutional quality and good governance. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473137
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The political economy of growth and distribution: A theoretical critique
Josten, Stefan Dietrich; Truger, Achim - 2003
inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306778
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Inequality, Politics, and Economic Growth : Three Critical Questions on Politico-Economic Models of Growth and Distribution
Josten, Stefan Dietrich; Truger, Achim - 2003
according to which (1) rising inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263391