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Are people happier if they experience freedom from regulation, and how do individual attitudes towards liberalisation influence personal life satisfaction? Based on data from European and World Values Surveys and the Economic Freedom of the World project we find evidence for positive effects of...
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Are people happier if they experience freedom from regulation, and how do individual attitudes towards liberalisation influence personal life satisfaction? Based on data from European and World Values Surveys and the Economic Freedom of the World project we find evidence for positive effects of...
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basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as … sources is used. The index is composed of four variables: government revenues, foreign currency reserves, export of goods and …:[http://finmin.nic.in/WorkingPaper/Index%20of%20Government%20Economic%20Power.pdf]. …
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This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …
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This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...
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, allowing it to explain some so far little understood differences between markets and government. The policy implications … strengthen the case against national planning, selective industrial policies, and government ownership of enterprises, but weaken …
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Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...
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