Search Results - subject:"state capacity"

Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

Giommoni, Tommaso; Loumeau, Gabriel; Tabellini, Marco - 2025

We study the fiscal determinants of the French Revolution, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the salt tax - a large source of royal revenues and one of the most extractive forms of taxation of the Ancien Régime. Implementing a Regression Discontinuity design (RDD), we find that parts...

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Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

Giommoni, Tommaso; Loumeau, Gabriel; Tabellini, Marco - 2025

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Extractive taxation and the French Revolution

Giommoni, Tommaso; Loumeau, Gabriel; Tabellini, Marco - 2025

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Good politicians : experimental evidence on motivations for political candidacy and government performance

Gulzar, Saad; Yasir Khan, Muhammad - In: The review of economic studies : RES 92 (2025) 1, pp. 339-364

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Extractive taxation and the French revolution

Giommoni, Tommaso; Loumeau, Gabriel; Tabellini, Marco - 2025

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015371873

Containment or bad detection? : poor state capacity implications on reported Covid-19 cases

Belmonte, Alessandro; Magnani, Michele - In: Journal of institutional economics : a … 21 (2025), pp. 1-20

This paper examines the effects of state capacity on the reported Covid-19 infection (and mortality) rate and its … policy implications. We analyse two dimensions of state capacity which were critical during the pandemic. The healthcare … state capacity level, due to their poor capabilities to detect the virus. Our study put the emphasis on the many facets of …

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