From a theoretical standpoint, there are reasons to believe that political competition and electoral participation might have opposite effects on the size of government. We investigate empirically this possibility using data from a panel of 104 countries from 1960. We find that reforms enhancing...

There is no unifying framework for evaluating core inflation measures, so we propose a methodological framework to close this gap. It allows us to construct, evaluate, and rank core inflation measures by applying it to countries and regions with different characteristics, such as Chile,...