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Plunging into the sea: Ideological change, institutional environments and private entrepreneurship in China

Bordignon, Massimo; Deng, Yanhua; Huang, Jian; Yang, Jin - 2018

This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after 2002, when the Party revised its constitution and officially removed ideological discrimination against private entrepreneurs. Using six waves of a nationwide survey of privately...

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The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg's ordoliberalism

Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2019

In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a "battle of ideas" emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before and during the crisis, implying a too...

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Preferences over Taxation of High Income Individuals: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Engelmann, Dirk; Janeba, Eckhard; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2019

not clear, however, whether this premise holds. In particular, political ideology might influence voting on taxes. We use …).We use various treatments to understand the role of mobility and ideology in tax choice. We observe substantial deviations …, political ideology matters: left-leaning households choose higher taxes than right-leaning persons, and center-right leaning …

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Plunging into the Sea: Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China

Yang, Jin; Huang, Jian; Deng, Yanhua; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018

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How do politics affect economic sentiment? The effects of uncertainty and policy preferences

Osterloh, Steffen - 2018

Expectations of consumers and investors are drivers of consumption and investment, and consequently the business cycle. In this paper, we study whether these expectations, as proxied by economic sentiment indicators, are affected by the political environment. First, we study the impact of...

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The market-promoting and market-preserving role of social trust in reforms of policies and institutions

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017

ability to overcome obstacles in the political process (stemming from ideology, ideological fractionalization, coalition …

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Whom to lobby? Targeting in political networks

Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016

We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups choose which decision-maker they want to target with their resource provision, and their decision depends on the decision-makers' ideologies as well as the network structure. We...

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A Model of Ideological Thinking

Le Yaouanq, Yves - 2018

This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters form motivated beliefs in order to improve their...

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Capitalism's Deniers

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2019

A new, capitalism-denying book is on the shelves, and it makes a stunning discovery: ‘Capitalism without competition is not capitalism’! Capitalist crisis, like climate change, tends to breed ‘capitalism deniers’. The problem, argue the deniers, lies not in capitalism but in its...

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Ideology, Inequality and Inequitable Trade Policies

Djerdjian, Daron O - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

to more inequitable trade policies. Using cross-country data on political ideology, wealth inequality and different …

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