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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

This study examines how quality of political institutions affects the distribution of government budget and how development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become especially important due to recent international sanctions,...

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Elite Structure and the Provision of Health-Promoting Public Goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites diﬀer in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Elites and Health Infrastructure Improvements in Industrializing Regimes

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

We collect information about more than 5,000 Prussian politicians, digitize administrative data on the provision of health-promoting public goods, and gather local-level information on workers’ movements to study why elites in industrializing countries implement policies that improve the...

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The Effects of Political Competition on the Feasibility of Economic Reform

Pinto, David - 2009

This paper explores the effects of political competition on reform feasibility. In contrast to previous models, this paper shows that desirable reform may fail even in the absence of economic losers or informational asymmetries, as a result of democracy. Even if reforms were to generate economic...

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior : Theory and Evidence from Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad - 2015

This study examines how quality of political institutions affects the distribution of government budget in Iran. We first introduce a mechanism through which this can shift government expenditure from patronage to more constructive public spending. Using impulse response functions (IRF) and...

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Informational boundaries of the state

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2014

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior: Theory and Evidence from Iran

Dizaji, S. F.; Farzanegan, M. R.; Naghavi, A. - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater … - 2015

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Informational boundaries of the state

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

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On the boundaries of the shadow economy : an empirical investigation

Manes, Eran; Schneider, Friedrich; Tchetchik, Anat - 2016

globe. A robust finding in these studies is the positive association between unemployment rates and the size of the … unemployment that features decreasing returns to unofficial activities and congestion effects in job searching, we conjecture a … long-run equilibrium relationship between unemployment and the size of the shadow economy. Our empirical model lends strong …

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