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Politics, policies and the dynamics of aggregate productivity in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela - 2009

, follows a faster track and depends more on political power than on those policies potential as engines for productivity growth … different groups weight in policymaking, and the effect of the implied unbalance on aggregate productivity. Electoral weight and … that the resulting imbalance of policies damages aggregate productivity. …

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Endogenous Institutional Change with Endogenous Interest Groups

Khan, Karim - 2012

This study explores the manner in which the availability of natural resources wealth, foreign aid or corruption potential constrains institutional improvements. By providing a framework, where rulers, bureaucracy and the citizens act endogenously, we show that the rents from these resources can...

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Political economy and governance

Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017

This paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda. The consensus that good sector governance improves the developmental impacts of extractive resources exploitation is premised on the understanding that institutions matter for...

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Informational boundaries of the state

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...

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Informational boundaries of the state

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

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Power and Productivity : Institutions, Ideology, and Technology in Political Economy

Benkler, Yochai - 2020

revival of “political economy” offers a frame for understanding the relationship between productivity and justice in market … productivity and power, both in the short and long term. The outcome of this struggle shapes the highly divergent paths that …

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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...

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