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Does globalization lead to environmental degradation? What is the role of democracy for environmental performance and … do left-wing governments really care more about the environment? Using a comprehensive measure of environmental …-wing governments, it is centrist governments that have the highest environmental performance. The political system, i.e. democracy …
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We investigate the effect of elections on underreporting COVID-19 mortality, measured as the difference between excess mortality and official statistics. Our identification strategy takes advantage of a natural experiment of the unanticipated onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the...
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We analyze the determinants of the excessive administrative spending of local governments in Indonesia. In an unbalanced panel data set of 399 districts for 2001‐2009, we show that the proliferation of districts has not led to increased administrative spending; instead a lack of political...
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