A cikk célja a közérdekű adatokhoz való hozzáférés lehetőségeinek tisztázása, ezen belül is a kutatási célra használható adatok hozzáférhetőségének elemzése. Bemutatjuk a Magyarországon jelenleg érvényben lévő jogi szabályozást, majd a közgazdaságtan normatív...

We estimate the effect of state judiciary presence on rent extraction in Brazilian local governments. We measure rents as irregularities related to waste or corruption uncovered by auditors. Our unique dataset at the level of individual inspections allows us to separately examine extensive and...

This paper investigates whether political competition plays an important role in determining the level of agricultural protection. In order to do so, we exploit variation in political and economic data from 74 developing and developed countries for the post-war period. Our results robustly show...

This paper analyzes the political economics of the composition of taxes. Taxes may be levied on income, or on expenditure, and the median voter is pivotal in the theoretical framework analyzed. As in Meltzer and Richard (1981) income taxes increase with inequality. Conversely expenditure taxes...

We analyze the effect of gender quotas on electoral participation by using a rich dataset of Italian municipal elections. Gender quotas were in force in Italy from 1993 until 1995. Because of the short period covered by the reform, some municipalities never voted using gender quota. This allows...

We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...

Resumen: La incidencia transversal que tiene la violencia y la criminalidad sobre la mayoría de variables económicas ha inducido a que sean consideradas como objetos de estudio de la ciencia económica. El artículo presenta la mirada económica ortodoxa sobre la violencia y la criminalidad...

Resumen: Este artículo describe una aproximación al proceso de formación de los costos políticoeconómicos que se generan para el Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá y para la comunidad regulada, a causa de la reglamentación de la tasa retributiva por el uso del agua, en el proceso de...

En este documento se analizan, desde la economía política, los determinantes quepueden explicar la dinámica de la estructura y el recaudo tributario, tomando comoreferencia el caso de América Latina y las reformas adoptadas parcialmentedespués de la crisis de la deuda externa para mostrar...

A feature of recent monetary policy asset purchase programmes is the reinvestment policy: the central bank announces to keep the overall volume of assets on its balance sheet constant for some time. In this paper, we systematically assess the macroeconomic effects of such reinvestment policies....