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Essays on collective action
Pönitzsch, Gert - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423916
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Politicians as bankers : the mechanisms and consequences of politically influenced banking
Markgraf, Jonas - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010645
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Searching for Keynes : an essay on the political economy of fiscal policy, with application to Canada, 1870-2000 - revised version
Winer, Stanley L.; Ferris, John Stephen - 2003
Keynes' General Theory (1936) is arguably one of the most important books of the twentieth century. His ideas for … stabilizing the aggregate economy have profoundly influenced economic theory as well as popular opinion about what governments can … and should do with respect to the business cycle. On the other hand, whether Keynesian theory has substantially altered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509394
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
elections, but local politicians from large mainstream parties had the ability to adjust municipal political institutions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505165
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2014
elections, but local politicians from mainstream parties had the ability to adjust municipal political institutions in such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319
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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344923
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Delayed Privatization
Pinotti, Paolo; Bortolotti, Bernardo - 2008
This paper studies the timing of privatization in 21 major developed economies in the 1977-2002 period. Duration analysis shows that political fragmentation plays a significant role in explaining government's decision to privatize: privatization is delayed longer in democracies characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217110
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What Makes Reforms Likely : Political Economy Determinants of Reforms in Latin America
Lora, Eduardo A.; Olivera, Mauricio - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to test the main hypotheses of the recent theoretical literature on the political economy of reform for the case of the Latin American countries between 1985 and 1995. The paper first reviews the literature and extracts the main testable hypotheses. Then, a system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069921
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On the Politics of the Regulatory Reform : Econometric Evidence from the OECD Countries
Duso, Tomaso - 2003
This paper empirically investigates contrasting views on the politics of economic policy. Merging different databases, we test various predictions coming form different strands of literature, with the aim of explaining the cross-sectional and temporal variation in the degree of regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074592
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Agency Problems and Political Institutions
Mitnick, Barry M. - 2013
develop both theory and prescription in agency settings. Particular problems are displayed almost like games (e.g., the "Major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074677