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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
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
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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Growth regimes, dominant social blocs and growth strategies : towards varieties of export-led growth regimes and strategies in Turkey and Poland
Akcay, Ümit; Jungmann, Benjamin - In: European journal of economics and economic policies : … 20 (2023) 3, pp. 539-560
This paper aims to contribute to the literature on growth regimes by combining an operationalization of growth regimes based on growth contributions and sectoral financial balances with an analysis of dominant social blocs (DSBs). We propose the concept of a growth strategy to bridge the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516141
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Political economy of growth regimes in Poland and Turkey
Akcay, Ümit; Jungmann, Benjamin - 2022
In this paper, we aim to contribute to the recently growing body of political economy literature on growth regimes. Theoretically, we apply the demand and growth regime approach developed within post-Keynesian macroeconomics. This is complemented by a critical comparative political economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013393467
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Medium Term Growth : The Role of Policies and Institutions
Jerzmanowski, Michal - 2019
[enter Abstract Body]In this chapter, we review the recent and growing literature on medium-term growth patterns. This strand of research emerged from the realization that for most countries economic development is a highly unstable process; over a few decades, a typical country enjoys periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869324
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The rise and fall of Argentina
Spruk, Rok - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-40
I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256073
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the … individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755330
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Economic growth modelling by technological shifts : a case of ICT/R&D-bound economic policy
Pichkov, Oleg Borisovich; Krykanov, Dmitry Dmitrievich; … - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 16 (2022) 2/3/4, pp. 397-416
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014308171
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Good policy choices even when voters entertain biased beliefs : a model with endogenous valence
Bischoff, Ivo; Siemers, Lars - 2008
voting. In so doing, we provide an investigation of when good policies are chosen in democracy. Based on our findings, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865948
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The Myth of Bad Policy Choices : Why Democracies Choose Mediocre Policies
Bischoff, Ivo; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2010
perspective the claim that biased beliefs lead to bad policy outcomes in democracy, as has been argued, for instance, by Bryan … Caplan (2007: The myth of the rational voter). We show that there is a self-correction mechanism in democracy that may … mitigate the problem of biased beliefs. Democracy is characterized by suffering from mediocre mixtures of populist and good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212900