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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth: Survey and Meta-Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision of public services. However,...
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Pushing One's Luck: Petroleum Ownership and Discoveries
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021
We present a new dataset that tracks changes in legal ownership regimes in the petroleum sector between 1867 and 2008 for a panel of countries. We document that foreign ownership has been taken over by partnerships as the leading ownership regime, while domestic ownership is on the rise again in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657875
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Explaining Inequality Between Countries: The Declining Role of Political Institutions
Hussey, Andrew J.; Jetter, Michael; McWilliam, Dianne - 2017
Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised’ political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …
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Pushing One's Luck : Petroleum Ownership and Discoveries
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021
We present a new dataset that tracks changes in legal ownership regimes in the petroleum sector between 1867 and 2008 for a panel of countries. We document that foreign ownership has been taken over by partnerships as the leading ownership regime, while domestic ownership is on the rise again in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219065
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The Effects of Land Redistribution : Evidence from the French Revolution
Finley, Theresa; Franck, Raphaël; Johnson, Noel D. - 2021
efficient land use. We trace these increases in productivity to an increase in land inequality associated with the Revolutionary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315182
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Too Big to Prevail : The Paradox of Power in Coalition Formation
Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Newell, Anthony; Page, Lionel - 2021
In standard coalition games, players try to form a coalition to secure a prize and a coalition agreement specifies how the prize is to be split among its members. However, in practical situations where coalitions are formed, the actual split of the prize often takes place after the coalition...
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Monetary Policy, Inequality and Political Instability
Duarte, Pablo; Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
Based on the concepts of justice by Hayek, Rawls and Buchanan we argue that the growing political dissatisfaction in industrialized countries is rooted in the asymmetric pattern in monetary policies since the 1980s for two reasons. First, the structurally declining interest rates and the...
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What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?
Bengtsson, Erik; Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020
This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...
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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …
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Plunging into the Sea: Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China
Yang, Jin; Huang, Jian; Deng, Yanhua; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018
benefits to entrepreneurs, in the form of easier access to loans from state owned banks, reduced government expropriation …
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