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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 … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
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 … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017 - Last revision: January 20, 2017
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590696
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017 - Last Revision: January 20, 2017
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588398
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The Larger the Better? The Role of Interest-Group Size in Legislative Lobbying
Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with preferences tilted towards one lobby may be induced by an increase in that interest group's size to propose policies geared towards the opposing lobby. Hence, a larger lobby size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753190
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Thelarger the better? : the role of interest-group size in legislative lobbying
Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with preferences tilted towards one lobby may be induced by an increase in that interest group's size to propose policies geared towards the opposing lobby. Hence, a larger lobby size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746474
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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics : the role of immigration in shaping natives' political preferences
Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; De Blasio, Guido; … - 2014
We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360287
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The political economy of financial systems : evidence from suffrage reforms in the last two centuries
Degryse, Hans; Lambert, Thomas; Schwienbacher, Armin - 2013 - This version: August 23, 2013
Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223450
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The political economy of redistribution policy
Bellani, Luna; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016
We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution in democracies. In democratic settings, generic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565576
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Disastrous discretion : ambiguous decision situations foster political favoritism
Schneider, Stephan A.; Kunze, Sven - 2022
Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177149