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South-south refugee movements: Do pull factors play a role? Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Mauro Lanati, Rainer Thiele
Studies analyzing the pattern of international refugee flows have so far focussed on movements to OECD destinations, even though the vast majority of refugees live in non-OECD countries. Employing a standard gravity model of international migration, we fill this research gap by investigating the impact of destination country characteristics on south-south refugee movements over the period 2004–2019
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Terrorism, counter-terrorism, and voting: The case of Turkey Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 M. Akif Yardimci
This paper empirically tests the impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism on voting by focusing on the two 2015 general elections in Turkey - and the 2011 general election. This period offers a unique case because, after the first election, the ongoing peace process between the incumbent party (AKP), the political party associated with the perpetrators (pro-Kurdish political party, HDP), and the imprisoned
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Do natural disasters affect local elections? An empirical examination using subnational electoral data Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Haruo Kondoh, Takeshi Miyazaki
Do natural disasters affect election results? Some studies have shown that natural disasters negatively impact subsequent elections, while others do not. This study investigated the link between natural disasters and local elections using data from the Japanese prefectural governor elections for the years 1985–2015. A rich data set is available for prefectural governor elections in Japan that includes
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The short-term macroeconomic impact of populism: A case study of Poland Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Michal Brzezinski, Katarzyna Sałach-Dróżdż
Recent research shows that populist governments in general depress countries' economic growth and fail to improve income distribution. We study the short-term macroeconomic consequences of populist policies implemented in Poland since 2015. Using the augmented synthetic control method, we find that the populists boosted the gross domestic product per capita by almost 8% between 2016 and 2019. We do
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Consecutive decentralization: The effect of central bank independence on capital account liberalization Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Joon Hyeok Lee
Central bank independence (CBI) has been widely advocated as a means to address the time-inconsistency problem of controlling inflation. Consequently, many countries have embraced central bank reforms since the 1990s. While extant research in political science has sought to unveil the consequences of CBI, there remains an unexplained variation in the response of countries with regard to capital account
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Multiple designer's objectives in business contests Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Chen Cohen, Roy Darioshi, Shmuel Nitzan
The vast contest literature disregarded the possibility of optimal contest design with simultaneous attainment of various objectives. The main goal of the current article is to illustrate the potential usefulness of a navigation tool that allows the designer to achieve, simultaneously, multiple objectives in contests between companies (competing for resources/patents/market-share, etc), based on a
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Private ownership and management control decisions in infrastructure from the perspective of Transaction Cost Theory: Evidence from emerging economies Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Nicole B. Baker, Christian Haddad
From the perspective of Transaction Cost Theory, this paper proposes a conceptual model to assess ownership and management control decisions of private partners in public-private partnerships for infrastructure with regard generic risk factors, namely asset specificity, demand risk, environmental risk, social risk, macroeconomic risk, and governance or behavioral risk. Using an ordinal logistic model
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Capital flow management and monetary policy to control credit growth Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Chokri Zehri, Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi
This paper examines whether capital flow management and monetary policies effectively reduce credit growth in emerging market economies in the presence of both conventional and unconventional monetary policy actions undertaken by advanced economies. We apply a dynamic panel model with fixed effects to a sample of 21 emerging market economies from 2000 to 2020 using quarterly data and more continuous
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Are democratic regime and the magnitude of the informal economy robust determinants of human impacts on the environment? An extreme bounds analysis Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Michaela Vourvoulia, Athanasios Kampas
There is a vast body of literature dedicated to identifying the major drivers that explain human impacts on the environment. In this study, we utilize the STIRPAT framework to assess whether two controversial factors should be considered when examining how humans affect the environment. Specifically, we investigate whether the quality of the democratic regime and the size of the informal economy play
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Health human capital formation in the OECD: Exploring the role of welfare state composition Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Marcelo Santos, Marta Simões, Sílvia Sousa
This study examines the relationship between welfare state or social expenditure composition and health human capital in 37 OECD countries spanning 1980–2018. Our findings confirm that public health spending has a positive effect on health capital formation. Dissecting social expenditure according to other nine social spending categories reveals a positive influence for old age pensions and unemployment
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Geopolitical hostility and corporate innovation: Evidence from US high-tech firms in trade sectors with China Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Yankuo Qiao
This study aims to empirically examine whether and how the innovation activities would change in the face of shocks caused by heightened US-China tensions for US high-tech firms from trade sectors with China. It is found that although the overall innovation intensity slides down during periods of heightened geopolitical risk and policy uncertainty, innovativeness of the US high-tech companies from
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Public good provision with redistributive taxation Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Paul Pecorino
A government sets the level of taxation to provide a public good valued by consumers. There are two groups of consumers, the rich and the poor. The government has redistributive preferences, but is initially constrained to use lump-sum taxation. This potentially leads the government to provide a very low level of the public good out of concern for not reducing private good consumption of the poor.
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Growth impact of status seeking behavior: A counter example Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Hamid Beladi, Sugata Marjit, Koushik Kumar Hati
This paper analyzes the impact of status seeking behavior on the growth of income. Conventional wisdom suggests that such behavior should stimulate the growth rate. We introduce a general status indicator as an average of relative income and another that reflects relative expenditure on a status good in a simple dynamic model. We show that the conventional approach, which includes only concern for
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Electoral proximity, political violence, and personal wellbeing: An experimental analysis in West Africa Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 John A. Doces
Does the threat of political violence affect wellbeing? We argue that political violence induced by elections reduces wellbeing as it provokes emotional reactions like anxiety and fear. There is a lingering effect from political violence that reemerges with new rounds of elections, and that reduces wellbeing. To test this claim, we employ an experimental analysis in Côte d'Ivoire. We motivate political
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American financial hegemony, global capital cycles, and the macroeconomic growth environment Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Heather Ba, William K. Winecoff
Global financial cycles have become a growing concern for scholars and policymakers. Recent research has identified these cycles as originating in American markets, at least in part due to policy innovations in the United States. We articulate a previously unidentified, but powerful, mechanism that influence growth (and growth volatility) in the global economy: expansions in the American financial
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Are electronic government innovations helpful to deter corruption? Evidence from across the world Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 João Martins, Linda Veiga, Bruno Fernandes
Electronic government innovations have been a critical development in public administration in recent years. Many countries have implemented e-government policies to enhance efficiency and transparency and combat corruption. This paper examines the impact of e-government on corruption using longitudinal data for more than 170 countries from 2002 to 2020. The empirical results suggest that e-government
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The political economy triangle of government spending, interest-group influence, and income inequality: Evidence and implications from the US states Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Ismail M. Cole
This paper introduces the political economy triangle (PET) concept of government spending, special interest groups (SIGs) influence, and income inequality, empirically confirming its existence and unveiling its nature while directly addressing key shortcomings of most prior research on the determinants of such inequality. Using static and dynamic panel techniques and data from the US states, it reports
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Institutional reform paths Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Clemens Buchen
This paper develops a dynamic population game in which agents play a simple anonymous-exchange game of cooperating or defecting. Agents switch to the strategy with a higher expected payoff. Reformers can affect the payoff structure of the stage game to maximize the number of cooperators in the population by either enacting legal reform (institutional quality of contract law) or focusing on the macro
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Does corruption rule the auditor's soul? Examining the auditors' attitude toward accepting corruption behaviors Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Zeena Mardawi, Guillermina Tormo-Carbó, Elies Seguí-Mas, Saed Al-Koni
This study investigates individual auditors' attitudes toward various corrupt behaviors in Palestine, an underexplored context. We examine the perception and determinants of auditors toward corruption and introduce the link between gender, job position, exposure to other cultures, age, and level of education as factors affecting attitudes toward corruption perception. Our findings reveal that auditors'
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Did the 2016 election cause changes in substance use? An intersectional approach Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Teresa Perry
This paper examines the impact of the 2016 election on substance use. One of Donald Trump's major campaign initiatives was to build a wall at the American/Mexican border, and he frequently made negative comments about various underrepresented groups. I hypothesize that this unorthodox rhetoric, coupled with Donald Trump's proposed policies during his campaign, created an exogenous shock of discrimination
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Institutional quality and public spending in Europe: A quantile regression approach Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Cristian Barra, Nazzareno Ruggiero
We appraise the effects of institutional quality on public spending for a set of 27 European countries and 18 Euro-area economies over the 1996–2017 period. While institutions play a weak role in affecting spending once the fixed-effects model is employed, the application of the quantile regression indicates that improved institutional quality mitigates public spending, although the effects crucially
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Policy uncertainty and inventory behavior: Evidence from the US manufacturing sector Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Chun Lu, James Routledge, Kam C. Chan, Tongxia Li
This study investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on asymmetric inventory investment (i.e., inventory stickiness or sticky inventory management). Using a sample of 74,912 US firm-year observations over the 1984–2021 period, we observe a significantly negative relationship between EPU and asymmetric inventory investment. Our cross-sectional analyses reveal that managers' pessimistic
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Does economic growth benefit the poor? The role of institutions and religions Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Khalid Sekkat
This paper seeks to explain the difference across countries of the impact of national growth on the growth of the income of the poor. Traditionally, studies attempting to explain such differences investigate only the impact of some additional variables on the income level of the poor. Here, we introduce interaction terms to explain the change in the elasticity of income of the poor to national income
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Better to be direct? Evidence from the abolition of direct elections in Italian local governments Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Francesco Ferlenga
This paper provides evidence for the importance of direct electoral processes by investigating the consequences for public spending of an unexpected reform that repealed direct elections for local (provincial) politicians in Italy. Direct elections were substituted with indirect ones, whereby directly elected municipal politicians choose a municipal mayor to serve as provincial president. Using a
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How are the precedents of trade policy rules made under the World Trade Organization? Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Kazutaka Takechi
Under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement, consistent trade policy rules are established through precedents. This study examines how these precedents are created by citations, including how the kinds of cases involved in previous decisions affect the citation frequency. We investigate three determinants of citation, namely, legal, economic, and political factors. The empirical analysis
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Tacit collusion in politics Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Christian Johansson, Anders Kärnä, Jaakko Meriläinen
We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting. This model entails multiple equilibria, and we focus on cases where political collusion occurs. When parties hold different opinions on some policy, they may take different policy positions that do not coincide with the median voter's preferred policy platform. In contrast, when parties have a mutual understanding
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The transmission of euro area monetary policy to financially euroized countries Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Isabella Moder
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the interest rate pass-through of euro area monetary policy to retail rates outside the euro area, contributing to the literature on the consequences of unofficial financial euroization and on the transmission channels of monetary policy spillovers. The results suggest that in the long run, more than the one-third of all euro retail rates in euroized
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Does geopolitical risk matter for corporate investment decisions? Evidence from cross-border acquisitions Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Chunfang Cao, Xiaoyang Li, Guilin Liu
Heightened geopolitical risk has become the new normal. We study the effects of geopolitical risks on cross-border acquisition activity. Using military alliance to proxy for the degree of geopolitical risks, we find that the formation of military alliance between two countries is associated with greater cross-border acquisition flows. Using the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization enlargements
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Uninformed voters with (im)precise expectations: Explaining political budget cycle puzzles Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Lamar Crombach, Frank Bohn
Governments try to improve re-election chances by using fiscal instruments; they can shift voters' expectations of government competence because some voters are impaired by uninformedness. We argue that uninformed voters may also be impaired in another way which has not been considered in the literature, namely that uninformed voters are uncertain about the precision of that expected competence. Analytically
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The political globalization trilemma revisited: An empirical assessment across countries and over time Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Michael Funke, Doudou Zhong
The political globalization trilemma asserts that a government cannot simultaneously opt for deep international integration, national sovereignty and democratic politics, but rather is constrained to choosing two of the three at most. This paper employs cross-country panel data operationalizing the multifaceted three vertices of the trilemma. After explorative data analysis, we employ panel error-correction
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Effectiveness and counter-cyclicality of fiscal consolidation under compliance regulation: The case of the Stability and Growth Pact Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Helmut Herwartz, Bernd Theilen
In this study we examine the impact of the European Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) on narratively identified fiscal adjustments whose prime focus is to reduce the budget deficit and compare the effects with those on the primary and the structural budget balance. The cross section of EU and non-EU economies and the sample period 1980–2014 allow for an assessment of the SGP regarding its effectiveness
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Higher turnout increases incumbency advantages: Evidence from mayoral elections Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Marco Frank, David Stadelmann, Benno Torgler
We analyze the effect of electoral turnout on incumbency advantages by exploring mayoral elections in the German state of Bavaria. Mayors are elected by majority rule in two-round (runoff) elections. Between the first and second ballot of the mayoral election in March 2020, the state government announced an official state of emergency. In the second ballot, voting in person was prohibited and only
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The political economy of state economic development incentives: A case of rent extraction Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Russell S. Sobel, Gary A. Wagner, Peter T. Calcagno
There is a large literature examining the macroeconomic effects of state economic development incentives on employment, income, tax revenue, and growth. At best, these incentives are found to be weakly effective at job creation, but inefficient due to the distortions, secondary effects, and increased rent-seeking they encourage, with little public accountability. Given the evidence on their inefficiency
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Foreign lobbying through domestic subsidiaries Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Jieun Lee
How much of lobbying activities disclosed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) actually represent foreign clients? What are their interests? By identifying the global ultimate owners of all corporate clients filing with the LDA, I find that majority-owned subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) account for nearly 20% of corporate lobbying spending in 2015–2016. This amount is comparable
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The impact of international sanctions on innovation of target countries Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Jun Wen, Xinxin Zhao, Chun-Ping Chang
This paper mainly presents a complete analysis of the impact of such sanctions on the innovation performance of target countries by exploiting the difference-in-differences method for panel data of 91 countries in the period 1988–2016. The empirical results confirm a significantly negative impact of overall international sanctions on innovation in the target countries; moreover, except for noneconomic
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Hit from abroad: Party dominance and the fiscal response to external economic shocks Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Julio A. Ramos Pastrana
Do politicians from dominant parties choose different fiscal policies in response to an external economic shock than politicians from competitive parties? This paper argues that politicians from dominant parties might adopt different fiscal policies than politicians from competitive parties in response to an external economic shock. Politicians from dominant parties might enjoy a political advantage
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The political reception of innovations Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Jeffry Frieden, Arthur Silve
Why do some societies embrace innovative technologies, policies, and ideas, while others are slow to adopt, and some even resist, them? Incumbent producers are most likely to be affected by certain kinds of innovations; they also wield a disproportionate influence in the design of institutions and policies that encourage or limit their adoption. We show formally that the elite has four cardinal policy
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Do house prices affect campaign contributions? Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Rebecca Lessem, Sarah Niebler, Carly Urban
Individual campaign contributions are the largest source of financing for U.S. presidential and congressional candidates, though the body of research examining why people give remains small. To help understand these decisions, we estimate the causal impact of house prices on donations across campaigns and parties using an instrumental variables strategy. Our results indicate that an increase in house
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The stock market and NO2 emissions effects of COVID-19 around the world Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Jens Klose, Peter Tillmann
In this paper, we study the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in estimated panel vector autoregression models for 92 countries. The large cross-section of countries allows us to shed light on the heterogeneity of the responses of stock markets and nitrogen dioxide emissions as high-frequency measures of economic activity. We quantify the effect of the number of infections and four dimensions
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Dynamic lobbying: Evidence from foreign lobbying in the U.S. Congress Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Hye Young You
How do interest groups decide which member of Congress to target when decisions are made collectively? Do lobbying strategies change as legislation advances? Answering these questions is challenging due to a lack of systematic observations of lobbying contacts. I answer these questions using a novel data set constructed from reports submitted by lobbyists on behalf of South Korea regarding its free
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“Restrict foreigners, not robots”: Partisan responses to automation threat Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Nicole Wu
Recent scholarship on technological change highlights its negative impacts on employment and wages. However, a decade of nationally representative surveys show that Americans hold favorable views toward technology despite concerns over labor displacement. How do people cope with employment threats from a trend they consider desirable? Using a survey experiment, this paper argues that people opt to
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Group threat and voter turnout: Evidence from a refugee placement program Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren
We study the impact of refugee inflows on voter turnout in Sweden in a period when shifting immigration patterns made the previously homogeneous country increasingly heterogeneous. Analyzing individual-level panel data and exploiting a national refugee placement program to obtain plausibly exogenous variation in immigration, we find that refugee inflows significantly raise the probability of voter
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Political decentralization and corruption: Exploring the conditional role of parties Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Kshitiz Shrestha, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Charles Hankla
This study investigates how national levels of corruption are influenced by the interaction of two factors in political decentralization: the presence of local elections and the organizational structure of national parties. Previous studies have focused primarily on the role of fiscal decentralization on corruption and have mostly ignored the institutions of political decentralization. Using new data
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Dynamics of public opinion and policy response under proportional and plurality elections Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Anthony J. McGann, Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda, John Bartle
We compare the patterns of adjustment of government policy to changes in public opinion in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. These countries are similar in many ways, except that the United Kingdom has plurality elections and single-party government, while the Netherlands has proportional representation (PR) and coalition government. This provides the first application of the Macro Polity approach
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Endogenous expropriation and political competition Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Thanh Le, Erkan Yalcin
We develop a game-theoretical model in which the politicians can be influenced by means of campaign contributions of special interest groups. If there is no legally binding contract, politicians have a proclivity to divert some contributions for private use. In doing so, they maximize their own utility which depends on expected election-winning premium and amount of funds misappropriated. We study
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Embedded autonomy, political institutions, and access orders Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Weicheng Lyu, Nirvikar Singh
We construct a model of “embedded autonomy,” the idea that the closeness of bureaucrats and business people may lead to growth-promoting policies by the government, though at the risk of leading to crony capitalism. We analyze how the level of monitoring to control corruption and the weight given to the future affect the nature of the possible outcomes. We explore possible tradeoffs between growth
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The effect of presidential election outcomes on alcohol drinking Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Isabel Musse, Rodrigo Schneider
The growing political polarization and the increasing use of social media have been linked to straining social ties worldwide. The 2016 presidential elections in the United States reflected this trend with reports of fear and anxiety among voters. We examine how election results can be linked to episodes of anxiety through the use of alcohol as self-medication. We analyze a daily dataset of household
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The effect of female representation on political budget cycle and public expenditure: Evidence from Italian municipalities Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Patrizia Ordine, Giuseppe Rose, Pasquale Giacobbe
This study analyzes the impact of the gender composition of political institutions on the political budget cycle (PBC) and on the size and structure of public expenditure. An instrumental variable approach is implemented to evaluate the influence of female politicians in municipal councils. The introduction of gender quotas for Italian municipalities is used as an exogenous variation in female participation
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Examining the effect of IMF conditionality on natural resource policy Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Iasmin Goes
Can International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending improve natural resource governance in borrowing countries? While most IMF agreements mandate policy reforms in exchange for financial support, compliance with these reforms is mixed at best. The natural resource sector should be no exception. After all, resource windfalls enable short-term increases in discretionary spending, and office-seeking politicians
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The voice of radio in the battle for equal rights: Evidence from the U.S. South Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Andrea Bernini
Although the 1960s race riots have gone down in history as America's most violent and destructive ethnic civil disturbances, a consensus on the factors able to explain their insurgence is yet to be found. Using a novel data set on the universe of radio stations airing Black-appeal programming, the effect of the media on riots is found to be sizable and statistically significant. A marginal (1%) increase
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The microfoundation of macroeconomic populism: The effects of economic inequality on public inflation aversion Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Hyunwoo Kim
Previous work on the politics of monetary policy has focused on the role of distributive motives stemming from individual characteristics such as income or factoral/sectoral interests in citizens' formation of monetary policy preferences. However, the existing literature has paid little attention to how a country's overall distributive context, namely, its level of economic inequality, affects citizens'
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The interest premium for left government: Regression-discontinuity estimates Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Joseph T. Ornstein, Jude C. Hays, Robert J. Franzese
This paper employs a regression-discontinuity design (RDD) to ascertain the effects of left government on the interest-rate premium that markets build into government-bond prices. One advantage of this approach is that RDD does not require, as have some previously employed strategies, strong assumptions about how market actors form political expectations, about the quality and dissemination of political
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Natural resource windfalls and efficiency in local government expenditure: Evidence from Peru Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Stanislao Maldonado, Martin Ardanaz
We study the role of natural resource windfalls in explaining the technical efficiency of public expenditure. Using a rich dataset of expenditure and public good provision for 1836 municipalities in Peru for the period 2001–2010, we estimate a nonmonotonic relationship between the efficiency of public good provision and the level of natural resource transfers. Local governments that were extremely
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Commodity terms of trade shocks and political transitions Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Thorsten Janus, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Brittany Tarufelli
In this paper, we estimate the effects of relative international commodity prices on political transitions accounting for time trends (since democracy might evolve in waves) and the fact that different autocratic regime types might respond differently. A standard deviation (2.1 percentage points) decrease in the growth rate of our 3-year moving-average relative price index increases the democratic
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Political economy of immigration policy in GCC countries Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Louis Jaeck
This paper focuses on immigration control in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries from a theoretical perspective. Gulf countries have massively relied on labor imports from the wider Arab world and South Asia, as the nationals' populations were too small to fill the growing need to expand infrastructure and development projects. Relying on a common agency model of lobbying adapted to an autocratic
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Government compensation and citizen support for immigration openness Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 David H. Bearce, Brendan J. Connell
This paper explores how government compensation programs like unemployment insurance and worker training may influence citizen attitudes about immigration openness. It considers several different arguments, including the proposition that social welfare programs may induce less-educated citizens to feel more negatively about their class identity, thus pushing them toward an exclusionary national identity
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Who is afraid of sanctions? The macroeconomic and distributional effects of the sanctions against Iran Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Morteza Ghomi
The sanctions imposed on Iran at the beginning of 2012 have simultaneously limited the country's access to the international financial system, levied a strict boycott on Iran's oil and petrochemical exports, and limited imports of intermediate goods. This paper tries to quantify the aggregate and heterogeneous effects of these sanctions. Applying the synthetic control method, I show that the sanctions
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Revisiting global imbalances: A comparative analysis of income and consumption inequality Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Li Sheng, Zhaoyong Zhang
This article presents a simple model that reveals the reverse relation of the ratio of current account balance to inequality in income and consumption. Consumption smoothing schemes have been aggregated, among which the linchpin is a policy intervention that mitigates the worsening consumption inequality problem. However, in the long run, short-sighted policies could have a corresponding impact on
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The influence of financial and economic literacy on policy preferences in Italy Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Beatrice Magistro
As populist and protectionist sentiments across the world increase, this paper explores the role that financial and economic literacy plays in shaping individual economic policy preferences. Analyzing original survey data collected in Italy, this study shows that financially and economically literate individuals, regardless of their economic self-interest, are more likely to prefer remaining in the
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Pull factors for migration: The impact of migrant integration policies Economics & Politics (IF 1.262) Pub Date : 2021-09-25 Cosimo Beverelli
This paper investigates the impact of migrant integration policies set by destination countries on migration from 202 origins to 27 destinations during the period 2010–2018. Employing a structural gravity methodology which features international and domestic (i.e., intra-national) migration flows, it shows that migrant integration policies, on average, positively affect cross-border migration relative