This paper investigates the behavior of rent-seeking politicians in an environment of increasing economic integration. The focus of the paper is on the implications of globalization-induced political yardstick competition for constitutional design with a view to the current discussion in the...

Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular "political repression boosts FDI" hypothesis and arrives...

In this paper we present a model of endogenous trade-policy formation which captures crucial aspects of the Japanese commercial and political culture. We analyze the influence of the portrayed cultural traits and show that cultural idiosyncrasies are important determinants of trade policy...

The traditional criticism notwithstanding, we show that social mobility can, in principle, explain political income redistributions. Nonetheless, the social-mobility argument for redistribution is not satisfactory, as actual transition probabilities are not consistent with order-preserving...

In diesem Aufsatz wird gezeigt, wie die Forschungsleistungen volkswirtschaftlicher Fachbereiche mit Hilfe eines publikationsanalyischen Verfahrens quantitativ abgeschätzt werden können. Das vorgestellte Verfahren erfasst alle einschlägigen Zeitschriftenartikel, die im Social Science Citation...

Anti-Dumping Politik wird üblicherweise als nicht-politische Protektion angesehen. Diese Einschätzung beruht auf der US-amerikanischen Praxis, die stark, wenn auch nicht vollständig, technisch/administrativ ausgerichtet ist. Diese Arbeit untersucht, inwiefern die in den Vereingten Staaten...

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. Using cross-country variation in education policies and its interaction with family background at the student level,...

Standard spatial models of political competition give rise to equilibria in which the competing political parties or candidates converge to a common position. In this paper I show how political polarization can be generated in models that focus on the nexus between pre-election interest group...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate environmental policy making from a positive point of view. Unlike traditional normative economic policy analyis, this paper is thus not concerned with advancing policy recommendations for the benefit of the policy makers. Jts objective is rather to...