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The economic effects of constitutions : replicating - and extending - Persson and Tabellini

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International agreements, economic sovereignty and exit

Richardson, Martin; Stähler, Frank - 2018

We develop a model in which it is uncertainty about the future domestic policy environment that both makes international cooperation attractive and induces the possibility of a nation reneging on such an international agreement. We show, in a fairly general setting in which the likelihood of...

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Fiscal constitutions

Gersbach, Hans - 1999

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The effects of fiscal institutions on public finance : a survey of the empirical evidence

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2001

This paper surveys the empirical research on fiscal institutions of the last three decades. The main results are: (i) Constitutional or statutory fiscal limitations have in most cases proved to be effective in cutting down public expenditure, revenue, and debt. (ii) Budgetary proce-dures matter...

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Wages and wage-bargaining institutions in the EMU : a survey of the issues

Calmfors, Lars - 2001

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The economics of political borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility? : testing the effects of delegating powers

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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky

March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021

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'Whatever is, is right? : Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe (Tawney lecture 2006)

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