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Passports for Sale: The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation in a Meta-Club

Konrad, Kai A.; Rees, Ray - 2019

Some of the member states of the European Union sell citizenship or residence to wealthy foreign investors. We analyse these "golden-passport" programs as a study in the political economy of conflict and cooperation in an international meta-club. Seen through the lens of club goods theory, the...

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The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development

Chaudhary, Latika; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2024

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Herrera, … - 2020

A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions

Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004

This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Dr?ze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...

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Sorties from the Fortress: The Current System of Anti-Immigration Policy in Germany

Rotte, Ralph - 1998

This paper gives a short synoptical overview of the most important elements of current anti-immigration policy in Germany. Based on the hypothesis that its primary aim is exclusion of new migrants, the measures taken within the framework of a groupwise nationally oriented but internationally...

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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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