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The Impact of Political Leaders' Profession and Education on Reforms

Dreher, Axel; Lamla, Michael J.; Lein, Sarah M.; … - 2007

This paper analyzes whether the educational and professional background of a head of government matters for the implementation of market-liberalizing reforms. Employing panel data over the period 1970-2002, we present empirical evidence based on a novel data set covering profession and education...

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Deregulation, Economic Growth and Growth Acceleration

Stankov, Petar - 2010

The paper analyzes the influence of credit-, labor-, and product market deregulation policies on economic growth in more than 70 economies over a period of 30 years. It addresses both the issues of reform measurement and its endogeneity. Specifically, by combining a difference-in-difference...

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Essays in political economy

Ruthardt, Fabian - 2023

This thesis examines the reciprocity between the economy and elections, politicians, and policies. To inform voters … actors, and policies is essential. In representative democracies, people do not elect policies. They elect politicians, who … finances. Chapter 2 investigates how politicians time tax policies around elections. Chapter 3 examines the influence of …

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Essays in political economy

Ruthardt, Fabian - 2023

Demokratien bestimmen die Bürger*innen nicht direkt die Politik. Sie wählen Politiker, die als unvollkommene Repräsentanten des … BIP-Wachstum, die Handelsbilanz und die Staatsfinanzen. In Kapitel 2 wird dargestellt, wie Politiker ihre Steuerpolitik. …

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Political Leaders and Macroeconomic Expectations : Evidence from a Global Survey Experiment

Boumans, Dorine; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2022

Can one single political leader influence macroeconomic expectations on a global scale? We design a large-scale survey experiment among influential economic experts working in more than 100 countries and use the 2020 US presidential election as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the effect...

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Protectionism and Economic Growth : Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization

Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021

We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. The...

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Light in the midst of chaos : COVID-19 and female political representation

Piazza, Kelly Senters; Diaz, Gustavo - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 136 (2020), pp. 1-4

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Small business under the COVID-19 crisis : expected short- and medium-run effects of anti-contagion and economic policies

Kawaguchi, Kohei; Kodama, Naomi; Tanaka, Mari - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 61 (2021), pp. 1-13

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Quantifying the impacts of air transportation on economic productivity : a quasi-experimental causal analysis

Carbo, Jose M.; Graham, Daniel J. - In: Economics of transportation : the official journal of … 24 (2020), pp. 1-13

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Protectionism and Economic Growth: Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization

Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020

We investigate how protectionist policies influence economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We employ the...

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