Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 851
Cover Image
Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807266
Cover Image
Could the 2008 US Financial Crisis Be Avoided with Network Governance?
Turnbull, Shann - 2013
Banks failed in 2008 because individuals with knowledge of risks were not connected to individuals who had the incentive and power to take corrective action. Evidence of this problem is provided by reports from the Lehman liquidator and The US Government Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092870
Cover Image
From Rags to Rifles : Deprivation, Conflict and the Welfare State
Rohner, Dominic - 2010
Historical evidence suggests that poor population groups are more likely to engage in conflict. We construct a theoretical model of the choice between appropriation and production. Fully specified production functions allow for both symmetrical outcomes and for introducing inequalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147719
Cover Image
Strategic implications of counter-geoengineering : clash or cooperation
Heyen, Daniel; Horton, Joshua; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018
Solar geoengineering has received increasing attention as an option to temporarily stabilize global temperatures. A key concern surrounding these technologies is that heterogeneous preferences over the optimal amount of cooling combined with low deployment costs may allow the country with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884418
Cover Image
Frontier rule and conflict
Malik, Muhammad Adeel; Ali Mirza, Rinchan; Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2023
We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict management and disproportionately empowers tribal elites, provides a more fragile basis for maintaining social order in the face of shocks. Combining a historical border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390564
Cover Image
Institutional Designs in International Transactions - An Evolutionary Economics Perspective
Freiling, Jörg - 2008
The globalisation of the economy goes along with numerous kinds of uncertainty and requires adequate institutional designs in order to avoid disadvantageous situations from the actors' points of view. Institutional designs usually consist of a mix of different institutions that are adapted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725527
Cover Image
Participative Political Institutions in Pre-Modern Europe. Introducing a New Database
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
This paper introduces and describes a new city-level data set on political institutions in pre-modern Europe. To be precise, it presents three variables reporting the prevalence of the different existing types of participative political institutions between 800 AD and 1800 AD in 104 cities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032425
Cover Image
Democracy and governance
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies depending on how the two terms (of a political discourse) are defined, that when the definition of one term encompasses distinctive features of the other we find that governance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817112
Cover Image
Does capitalism disfavor women? : evidence from life satisfaction
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2023
There is widespread concern, especially in certain feminist circles, that a market-oriented economic system, or capitalism, disfavors women. This could take many forms, such as lower wages for the same type of work, reduced career opportunities, disparities in ownership and the upholding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332166
Cover Image
Corruption, judicial accountability and inequality : unfair procedures may benefit the worst-off
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2019
We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that … judicial accountability is positively, related to both types of inequality. The estimates are particularly pronounced in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137555