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International Political Alignment During the Trump Presidency : Voting at the UN General Assembly

Mosler, Martin - 2020

We examine voting behavior of Western allied countries in line with the United States over the period 1949 until 2019 …. Descriptive statistics show that voting in line with the United States on resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA … policy shift is especially pronounced for resolutions dealing with the Middle East. The decline in common UNGA voting …

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: a panel analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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Decentralizatin and the shadow economy: Oates meets Allingham-Sandmo

Bühn, Andreas; Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2011

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization...

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Beyond the veil of ignorance: The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - 2012

In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...

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Habit formation, strategic extremism and debt policy

Matsen, Egil; Thøgersen, Øystein - 2007

We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation …

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Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey

Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014

Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That's what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who played...

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The Political Economy of Cordon Tolls

De Borger, Bruno; Russo, Antonio - 2015

owners of land in different locations. Assuming majority voting we show that the equilibrium toll is below the socially …

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