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When do politicians appeal broadly? : the economic consequences of electoral rules in Brazil

Chin, Moya - 2021

Electoral rules determine how voters' preferences are aggregated and translated into political representation, and their design can lead to the election of representatives who represent broader or narrower constituencies. Relying on a regression discontinuity design, I contrast single- and...

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The fiscal cost of conflict : evidence from Afghanistan 2005-2016

Barrett, Philip - 2018

I use a monthly panel of provincially-collected central government revenues and conflict fatalities to estimate government revenues lost due to conflict in Afghanistan since 2005. I identify causal effects by instrumenting for conflict using pre-sample ethno-linguistic share. Headline estimates...

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The short-term impact of COVID-19 on labor markets, poverty and inequality in Brazil

Al Masri, Diala; Flamini, Valentina; Toscani, Frederik - 2021

We document the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market focusing on employment, wages and hours worked using the nationally representative household surveys PNAD-Continua and PNAD COVID. Sectors most susceptible to the shock because they are more...

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Hold Your Nose and Vote : Why Do Some Democracies tolerate Corruption?

Pani, Marco - 2009

This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result …, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of resources between public and private expenditure, altering the … citizens can indirectly benefit from corruption. The paper shows that, under this condition, if the citizens anticipate a shift …

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A Noteon the Public Choice Approach to the Growth in Government Expenditure

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The paper applies an empirical model, based on the economic theory of public choice, to the Group of Seven countries. It is discovered: (a) that deficit financing does appear to contribute to increased real government spending; (b) that the demand for government services as a whole does not...

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Austerity and elections

Alesina, Alberto; Ciminelli, Gabriele; Furceri, Davide; … - 2021

Conventional wisdom holds that voters punish governments that implement fiscal austerity. Yet, most empirical studies, which rely on ex-post yearly austerity measures, do not find supportive evidence. This paper revisits the issue using action-based, real-time, ex-ante measures of fiscal...

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Why Focuson Spending Needs Factors? : The Political Economy of Fiscal Transfer Reforms in Mexico

Ahmad, Ehtisham - 2007

An equalization system ensures that subnational governments can provide similar level of public services at a comparable level of own tax-effort. This paper focuses on the importance of spending needs factors in the design of equalization transfers as well as special purpose transfers-and the...

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Government Spending, Legislature Size, and the Executive Veto

Baqir, Reza - 2001

Recent work on the political economy of fiscal policy has asked how budgetary institutions affect fiscal outcomes. But what determines the budgetary institutions? In this paper I consider one such institution: the executive veto. A simple theoretical framework predicts that jurisdictions with...

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Demographic changes in Latin America : the good, the bad and …

Acosta Ormaechea, Santiago Leonardo Enrique; … - 2017

the long term. We illustrate its features by applying it to the LAC5 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico …

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Doing more with less : how can Brazil foster development while pursuing fiscal consolidation?

Flamini, Valentina; Soto, Mauricio - 2019

Development Goals in the health, education, and infrastructure sectors in Brazil. We find that there is room for savings in … in roads, water, and electricity by 2030. Brazil can do more with less, but increasing efficiency of public spending will …

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