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Using a novel biographical database including all Presidents and presidential candidates in Colombia for the period 1833-2010 I show that the value of a political connection can be quantified in terms of the votes transferred within a political network. I consider three types of political...
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This paper provides an overview of the failure of Argentina to benefit long term from export led development in the early and middle decades of the last century. Despite being well positioned to take advantage of significant breakdowns in the international economic system Argentina largely...
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Classical liberal economists have proposed a theory of intervention-crisis-disintervention cycles that allow us to find the right moment to promote market liberalization. Our project seeks to understand the Brazilian cycle since its democratic opening in the 1980s as a way of enhancing the...
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In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president. Pinochet's supporters argued that the coup was the only way to save the country amid statism and socioeconomic breakdown. But how much was Allende to blame for the crisis that...
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Using a novel biographical database including all Presidents and presidential candidates in Colombia for the period 1833-2010 I show that the value of a political connection can be quantified in terms of the votes transferred within a political network. I consider three types of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206018
per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never …
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This study examines the repercussions of the 1979 Sandinista revolution on Nicaragua's economic growth trajectory. Drawing on the synthetic control method, it constructs an artificial counterpart to Nicaragua with the primary objective of estimating the counterfactual gross domestic product...
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power and economic interests after a transition to democracy. We claim that legislative malapportionment enhances the pre … America to document empirically that malapportionment increases the probability of transitioning to a democracy. Moreover, our … data show that overrepresented electoral districts are more likely to vote for parties close to pre-democracy ruling groups …
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El éxito de un pacto fiscal se mide por el grado en que incorpore a los diversos grupos sociales en las discusiones, el cumplimiento y la vigilancia de ciertos acuerdos sobre la forma como se financia el Estado y se utilizan los recursos públicos. Partiendo de los factores políticos que...
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