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What is Different About Family Businesses?

Chami, Ralph - 2001

developing countries. This paper develops a theory of family business that brings market forces and the family, as a nonmarket …

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Conditional Lending Under Altruism

Mourmouras, Alexandros Thomas - 2004

We analyze how the altruism of an international financial institution (IFI) towards its lowincome member countries …. Thus, IFI altruism and the inability to commit are sufficient reasons to equip loans with conditions. Conditional loans … produce an efficient allocation of resources, so altruism is not a fundamental reason that loans fail to increase welfare …

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Should Subsidized Private Transfers Replace Government Social Insurance?

Fullenkamp, Connel - 2000

Private transfers between individuals or through organized charities are increasingly viewed as an alternative for government social insurance programs. This paper models the incentive effects of government subsidized private transfers and finds that while there is a significant welfare benefit...

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Microeconomic Implications of Remittances in an Overlapping Generations Model with Altruism and Self-Interest

Melkonyan, Tigran A. - 2008

The paper explicitly models the dynamic strategic aspects of the interaction between the migrant and the remittance-receiving relative(s), with the migrant behaving as a Stackelberg leader. It is also different from other formalizations of remittance behavior in its treatment of the two...

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Price Controls and Electoral Cycles

Asilis, Carlos M. - 1993

This paper studies the interactions between electoral considerations and the imposition of price controls by opportunistic policymakers. The analysis shows that a policy cycle emerges in which price controls are imposed in periods leading to the election, and removed immediately afterwards. The...

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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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Corruption, Competition, and Contracts : A Model of Vote Buying

Vardy, Felix J. J. - 2006

In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of votebuying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome....

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Altruism and Workers' Remittances : Evidence From Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia

Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques - 2006

flows could be a valuable input to the analysis of their external vulnerabilities. This paper argues that ""altruism,"" as a … that altruism could have played an important role in the flow of remittances to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and …

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A Theory of Workers' Remittances with An Application to Morocco

Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques - 2004

This paper provides a model on how altruism, ""attachment"" to the home country, and portfolio diversification may act … are their degrees of altruism and ""attachment"" to their home country, and should also depend on interest rate …

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Do fiscal rules cause fiscal discipline over the electoral cycle?

Eklou, Kodjovi M.; Joanis, Marcelin - 2019

This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on political budget cycles in a sample of 67 developing countries over the period 1985-2007. We exploit the geographical pattern in the adoption of fiscal rules to isolate an exogenous source of variation in the adoption of national fiscal...

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