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Europe's future after the European Council meeting of June 2007: A panel discussion

Bordignon, Massimo; Gros, Daniel; Roland, Gérard; … - In: CESifo Forum 8 (2007) 4, pp. 39-44

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Democracy and income inequality : an empirical analysis

Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Standard political economy theories suggest that democratization has a moderating effect on income inequality. But the empirical literature has failed to uncover any such robust relationship. The authors take another look at the issue. The authors argue that prevailing ideology may be an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989958

Is inequality in Africa really different ?

Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

High inequality in Africa is something of a paradox: Africa should be a low-inequality continent according to the Kuznets hypothesis (because African countries are poor and agriculture-based), and also because land (the main asset) is widely shared. The author's hypothesis is that African...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005080153

Does Liberte = Egalite ? A survey of the empirical links between democracy and inequality with some evidence on the transition economies

Mark, Gradstein.; Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005080175

Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality

Keefer, Philip; Milanovic, Branko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240346

DEMOCRACY, IDEOLOGY AND INCOME INEQUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Milanovic, Branko; Gradstein, Mark; Ying, Yvonne - EconWPA - 2003

democracy, a type of political system matters too: parliamentary and mixed presidential- parliamentary systems have a more of an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556925

Does Liberté = Egalité? A Survey of the Empirical Evidence on the Links between Political Democracy and Income Inequality

Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko - CESifo - 2000

between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405913

Democracy and Income In-Equality: An Empirical Analysis

Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko; Ying, Yvonne - CESifo - 2001

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality, empirical literature has failed to uncover any such robust relationship. Here we take yet another look at this issue arguing first, that prevailing ideology may be an important...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405921

The Modern World: The effect of democracy, colonialism and war on economic growth 1820-2000

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

The paper uses the recently available data on growth rates, democracy, protectionism, and wars over the period 1820 to … the effect of democracy on growth, was colonialism economically bad for colonies, does protectionism affect growth … negatively, what is the effect of wars? We find that own democracy has a significant positive impact on growth which increases as …

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Relationship between Income and Emergence of Democracy Reexamined, 1820-2000: A non-parametric approach

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

The paper contrasts Lipset’s modernization hypothesis and Przeworski- Limongi hypothesis that entries into democracy … are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry …

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