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The effect of direct democratic institutions on income redistribution : evidence from Switzerland

Feld, Lars P. (contributor); … - 2008

the main focus is on comparison between different forms of representative democracy, the influence of direct democracy on … redistribution has attracted much less attention. According to theoretical arguments and previous empirical results, government … representative democracies. In this paper, we find that institutions of direct democracy are associated with lower public spending …

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Political Competition and Economic Performance : Theory and Evidence from the United States

Besley, Timothy - 2008

One of the most cherished propositions in economics is that market competition by and large raises consumer welfare. But whether political competition has similarly virtuous consequences is far less discussed. This paper formulates a model to explain why political competition may enhance...

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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...

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State Capacity, Conflict and Development

Besley, Timothy - 2010

We report on an on-going project, which asks a number of questions relevant to the study of state capacity. What are the main economic and political determinants of the state's capacity to raise revenue and support private markets? How do risks of violent conflict affect the incentives to invest...

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The De Soto Effect

Besley, Timothy - 2010

This paper explores the consequences of creating and improving property rights so that fixed assets can be used as collateral. This has become a cause célèbre of Hernando de Soto whose views are influential in debates about policy reform concerning property rights. Hence, we refer to the...

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Cross-Country Determinants of Life Satisfaction : Exploring Different Determinants Across Groups in Society

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2008

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development...

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Soldiers or Bureaucrats? Conflict and the Military’s Role in Policy-Making

Leon, Gabriel - 2010

can take two forms: direct when the military runs the government, and indirect when it influences policy without governing …

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Pandering Judges

Blanes i Vidal, Jordi - 2010

Tenured public officials such as judges are often thought to be indifferent to the concerns of the electorate and, as a result, potentially lacking in discipline but unlikely to pander to public opinion. We investigate this proposition empirically using data on promotion decisions taken by...

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Coordinating Tasks in M-Form and U-Form Organisations

Qian, Yingyi - 2015

We model the coordination of specialised tasks inside an organisation as quot;attribute matchingquot;. Using this method, we compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In our framework, organisational forms affect...

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The Density Form of Equilibrium Prices in Continuous Time and Boiteuxs Solution to the Shifting-Peak Problem - (Now Published as Boiteuxs Solution to the Shifting-Peak Problem and the Equilibrium Price Density in Continuous Time, in Economic Theory, Vol. 20 (2002), Pp.503-537.)

Horsley, Anthony - 2009

Bewley's condition on production sets, imposed to ensure the existence of an equilibrium price density when L? is the commodity space, is weakened to allow applications to continuous-time problems, and especially to peak-load pricing when the users' utility and production function are Mackey...

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