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Fatás, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper shows that there exists a strong positive correlation between long-term growth rates and the persistence of output fluctuations in a cross section of countries. We argue that the traditional explanation of persistence, a real business cycles model with exogenous productivity shocks,...

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Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia

Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Sonin, Konstantin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Laws that work well in a rule-of-law country may produce unexpected outcomes in a corrupt environment. We argue that the legal system in Russia is faulted by the capture of regional divisions of arbitrage courts. We analyse the consequences of this for the efficiency of Russian bankruptcy law....

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Fiscal Flows in the United States and Canada: Lessons for Monetary Union in Europe

Bayoumi, Tamim; Masson, Paul R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Regional flows of federal taxes and transfers within the United States and Canada are used to analyse long-term fiscal flows (the redistributive element) and short-term responses to regional business cycles (the stabilization element). In the United States, long-run flows amount to 22 cents in...

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The Redistributive Effects of the EU Budget: an Analysis and Some Reflections on the Agenda 2000 Negotiations

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper analyzes the redistributive effects of the EU budget during the period 1986-97 and advances a proposal for setting member countries' budgetary balances in a manner consistent with a simple equity criterion based on relative income per capita.

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Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Natural Bankruptcy Experiment

Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Sonin, Konstantin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the nature of judicial bias in bankruptcy proceedings following the enactment of bankruptcy law in Russia in 1998. We find that regional political characteristics affected judicial decisions about the numbers and types of bankruptcy procedures initiated after the law took effect. In...

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Decentralization, Happiness, and the Perception of Institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals’ overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …

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Crises, What Crises?

Campos, Nauro F; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...

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Galton's Fallacy and Tests of the Convergence Hypothesis

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Recent tests for the convergence hypothesis derive from regressing average growth rates on initial levels: a negative initial level coefficient is interpreted as convergence. These tests turn out to be plagued by Francis Galton's classical fallacy of regression towards the mean. Using a dynamic...

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Convergence in Output in Transition Economies: Central and Eastern Europe, 1970-1995

Estrin, Saul; Urga, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper we use unit roots/cointegration analysis and time-varying parameters procedures to test for a common growth path in the ex-communist block, both pre- and post-reform. We test whether there has been convergence within the block and between the block as a group and the West....

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The Architecture of Federations: Constitutions, Bargaining, and Moral Hazard

Kessler, Anke; Luelfesmann, Christoph; Myers, Gordon M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

centralization and decentralization are suboptimal as long as political bargaining does not take place. With bargaining, however, the … first best can often be achieved under decentralization, but not under centralization. At the root of this result is the …

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