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Essays in political economics : causes and consequences of political competition
(2017)
There is some growing literature exploring the effects of political competition on economic outcomes. This thesis studies not only the economic consequences of political competition, but their causes. On the one hand, I ...
The Limits of political compromise: debt ceilings and political competition
(2015)
We study the desirability of limits on the public debt and of political competition in an economy where political parties alternate in office. Due to rent-seeking motives, incumbents have an incentive to set public ...
The predatory or virtuous choices governors make: the roles of checks and balances and political competition
(2008)
States usually differ markedly in terms of public goods provision and corruption. Why are some state governments able to provide adequate health and education services, but others tend to specialize in the provision of ...
Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
(2010-06-16)
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with ...
Decentralization, political competition and corruption
(North-holland, 2013-11)
We study the effect of decentralization on corruption in a political agency model from the perspective of a region. In a model where corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time, ...
Dimensions of Competition in Chilean Politics in the Nineties: Assessing the Impact of a Military Government in the Restructuring of the Party System
(CLAD-LATINOAMERICANO ADMINISTRACION DESARROLLO, 2013)
This document studies the impact of the Chilean transition on the development of the party system, where the authoritarianism has had a high level of legitimacy. Based on multivariate analysis of the World Values Survey, ...
Tax decentralization notwithstanding regional disparities
(ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2021)
In assessing tax decentralization optimality, a dilemma between efficiency and redistribution emerges: tax decentralization enhances fiscal discipline, but may also widen interregional disparities by triggering tax competition ...
Electoral competition and local government responsiveness in Brazil
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2013-03)
The empirical literature on the effects of competition on the supply of public goods shows controversial results at the local level. The main objective of this paper is to investigate this relationship in a federalist ...
Escaping the trap of "blocking": A kinetic model linking economic development and political competition
(American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2017-06)
In this paper we present a kinetic model with evolutive stochastic game-type interactions, analyzing the relationship between the level of political competition in a society and the degree of economic liberalization. The ...