In an important and much cited study, Pettersson-Lidbom (2008) identifies significant left-wing majority coalition effects on economic outcomes for Swedish local governments, 1974-1994. We first replicate the original study and then extend the original research by applying Pettersson-Lidbom's...

Hierarchies are common in political settings. From judges to elected politicians, as well as from activists to bureaucrats, political agents compete for promotion to higher positions. This paper studies political tournaments and their impact on two aspects of political performance:...

The study aims to investigate the direct effect of globalization on financial inclusion in SSA and examine the role of the political regime between globalization and financial inclusion.The methodology involves the following steps: Compute a financial inclusion index; Disentangle globalization...