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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934658
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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934664
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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration
Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes …, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363276
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Keeping Dictators Honest: the Role of Population Concentration
Do, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2009
In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes …, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. around the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004018
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R; Do, Quoc-Anh - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that spatial distance between citizens and the seat of political power reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that keeping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936505
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R; Do, Quoc-Anh - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that spatial distance between citizens and the seat of political power reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that keeping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936507
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Value of Political Connections in Social Networks
Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen-Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang; Nguyen, … - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of social-network based political connections on firm value. We focus on the networks of university classmates and alumni among directors of U.S. public firms and congressmen. Comparing firms connected to elected versus defeated politicians in the Regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549027
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the case when we use the variation induced by the exogenous location of a state’s centroid to instrument for the concentration of population around the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549028
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Frontier governmentality
Malik, Muhammad Adeel; Ali Mirza, Rinchan; Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2023
We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477562
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Frontier rule and conflict
Malik, Muhammad Adeel; Ali Mirza, Rinchan; Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2023
We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477631