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Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? : The two faces of infrastructure investment

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Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? : The two faces of infrastructure investment

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accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France's regions over 1985-92 suggest that electoral …This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure …

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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...

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On the Politics of the Regulatory Reform : Econometric Evidence from the OECD Countries

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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...

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Explaining de facto judicial independence

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efficiency and may therefore contribute positively to economic growth. But JI as formally written down in legal texts is an …

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