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This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
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This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930943
Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...
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Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082160
Mit dem Umzug von Bundestag und Bundesregierung an die Spree ist Berlin endgültig Hauptstadt. Jetzt würden wir gerne … Dominanz((h'fett)) der Hauptstadt im nationalen Städtesystem als einen mittelbaren Hinweis auf positive Impulse der … verschiedene "Lokomotivmechanismen" vor, die der Hauptstadtrolle tatsächlich positive Impulse für die Entwicklung der Hauptstadt …
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Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …
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This paper shows that Tabellini's recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic … to support any conclusions about the effect of culture on economic development. -- culture ; economic development …
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