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The Characteristics Of Politically Connected Firms
Jun 2007
Evidence from firms in 47 countries shows that companies connected with officials have higher leverage and higher market shares, but they underperform nonconnected companies on an accounting...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
Dec 2007
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
Jan 2008
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
New President, New Congress: What It Means For Global Private Equity
Jan 2010
The Democratic Party firmly in command of both the White House and Congress - 2009 is shaping up to be a year of stepped-up activity on key issues affecting the private equity industry....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Private Equity In Africa - Lessons Learned
Jan 2010
Africa represents a colossal investment opportunity. Containing 23 percent of the world's landmass and nearly one billion people, the continent has exceeded world average growth for the past eight...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Political Connections And The Process Of Going Public: Evidence From China
Feb 2009
This paper examines how political connections impact the process of going public. Specifically, the authors test how political connections impact the pricing of the newly offered shares, the...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Investor Attitudes Towards Risk And Uncertainty And Reactions To Market Turmoil
Jun 2010
In order to assess how individual small investors have reacted to recent adverse events in world financial markets and whether these reactions are mediated by their risk attitudes, a survey was...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Is Political Risk Company-Specific? The Market Side Of The Yukos Affair
Sep 2006
The Yukos affair, a state-led assault on controlling shareholders of a private Russian oil company, once again demonstrated the shaky nature of property rights in emerging markets. Toughening of...
Provided by Bilkent University
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White Papers
Protection For Free? The Political Economy Of U.S. Tariff Suspensions
Sep 2010
This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. The authors develop a model in which firms...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Resource Windfalls And Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: The Role Of Political Institutions
Jul 2010
The authors examine the effect that revenue windfalls from international commodity price shocks have on sovereign bond spreads using panel data for 30 emerging market economies during the period...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Is There A Novelty Premium On New Financial Instruments?
Mar 2008
This paper provides a political economy analysis of the incentives underpinning a country's decision to enter a regional trade agreement when a multilateral free trade agreement is available, and...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Political Budget Cycles In Papua New Guinea
Sep 2007
This paper assesses the presence of opportunistic electoral budget cycles in Papua New Guinea. Using quarterly time series data, a clear pattern emerges of pre-election manipulations of fiscal...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Decoding Terror
Mar 2009
What message are terrorists trying to send, and how should national leaders respond? That is a question Kellogg School Associate Professor Sandeep Baliga explored at a recent Kellogg School...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
The Return Of The Politician
Jan 2010
Politicians - or, more broadly, government officials - have always played a role in the economy, but that role has been significantly downplayed in recent years. If free markets, free trade, and...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
Webcasts
Political Change In China Is 'Almost Inevitable' But Beijing Has 'Nothing To Fear': Anson Chan
Jan 2011
Asian pro-democracy advocate Anson Chan says China has 'Nothing to fear' in allowing Hong Kong full democracy. China's Communist leadership has signaled the Special Administrative Region can elect...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
Next Steps In Domestic Climate Policy: Issues And Innovations
Mar 2009
Dallas Burtraw is Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research. Burtraw's research interests include the design of...
Provided by Regents of the University of Michigan
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Webcasts
U.S. Macroeconomic Policy: Steps Toward Recovery
Oct 2009
This webcast focuses on the topic "U.S. Macroeconomic Policy: Steps Toward Recovery". The panelists are: Peter Borish is Chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation; Charles L. Evans is...
Provided by Regents of the University of Michigan
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White Papers
The Profits Of Power: Commercial Realpolitik In Europe And Eurasia
Oct 2010
Old-style realpolitik - bilateral, sentiment-free, and organized by great powers - has returned to Europe, thereby wreaking havoc on traditions of solidarism and multilateralism in the European...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
How Managing Political Risk Improves Global Business Performance
May 2006
Companies doing business internationally are grappling with political issues that sometimes surprise even the most experienced. A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Eurasia Group shows that...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Accounting Information As Political Currency
Mar 2008
The authors test whether accounting can be used as political currency. The setting is the US congressional election of 2004, where outsourcing of US jobs was a campaign issue. They find that the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Accountability And Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis Of Vietnam And China
May 2008
Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic growth than China and Vietnam. In this paper, the authors take a deeper look at political institutions in the two...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Political Instability And Untimely Dissolution: Partnerships, Corporations, And The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1929
Apr 2008
This paper is part of a broader research project on the economic impact of the Mexican Revolution. In this paper the authors make an initial approximation of the effect of the Revolution on the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy Of Education In Brazil, 1889-1930
Mar 2010
This paper explains how state governments got the funds to pay for education and examines the incentives that politicians had to spend on education between 1889 to 1930. The findings are...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Does Deceptive Advertising Reduce Political Participation? Theory And Evidence
Aug 2009
The authors examine the effect of deceptive advertising on voting decisions in elections. They model two candidate elections in which voters are uncertain about candidates' attributes; and...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Deliberative Democracy And Political Ignorance
Oct 2010
Advocates of "Deliberative democracy" want citizens to actively participate in serious dialogue over political issues, not merely go to the polls every few years. Unfortunately, these ideals don't...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Political Dynasties
May 2006
We study political dynasties in the United States Congress since its inception in 1789. The authors document patterns in the evolution and profile of political dynasties, study the...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
Cursed Resources? Political Conditions And Oil Market Outcomes
Dec 2010
The authors analyze how a country's political institutions affect oil production within its borders. They find a pronounced negative relationship between political openness and volatility in oil...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Doing Business Indicators: Measurement Issues And Political Implications
Jun 2007
The debate on labor market institutions and how they affect employment and economic performance remains controversial. Since the 1980s, it has been argued that Europe's lackluster economic...
Provided by International Labour Organization
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White Papers
The European Union, European Identity, And Political Cleavages In Turkey
Apr 2009
As an economically-developing country spanning two continents and having a history grounded in both the West and the East, Turkey represents a dramatic case of a "Torn" (Huntington 1993) or...
Provided by Oakland University
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White Papers
Integration Without Identification? The Determinants Of Europeanness In The EU
Apr 2009
European identity has moved from a possible outcome of integration to a force determining the level of future integration, because without some identification with Europe on the part of the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Partison Europe - Political Parties And The Implementation Of EU Public Policy
Apr 2009
The domestic implementation of policy made beyond the boundaries of the state is an opportunity for political contestation because it activates long-standing cleavages on the basis of which...
Provided by University of London
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Direct Democracy And Local Public Goods: Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
May 2010
This paper presents an experiment in which 49 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based...
Provided by American Political Science Association
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Inflating The Beast: Political Incentives Under Uncertainty
Jun 2008
The standard view of the political economy of public debt is that myopic and un-constrained politicians prefer to disregard intertemporal smoothing considerations and extract political rents as...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
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White Papers
Separation Of Powers And The Budget Process
Jun 2006
The authors study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In this model, the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and earmarked...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
The Political Economy Of Warfare
Dec 2006
Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more surprisingly, wars are often quite popular with citizens who stand to gain...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Decision-Making In The Political And Technical Environments
Oct 2006
Mutual misunderstanding between decision-makers in the political and technical environment leads to programs that experience cost overruns, schedule delays and, often, cancellation. This paper...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Bias In Political Communication Experiments
Dec 2010
Research on political communication effects has enjoyed great progress over the past 20 years. A key ingredient underlying these advances is the increased usage of experiments that demonstrate how...
Provided by Northwestern University
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White Papers
The Political Economy Of The Subprime Mortgage Credit Expansion
Jun 2010
The authors examine how special interests, measured by campaign contributions from the mortgage industry, and constituent interests, measured by the share of subprime borrowers in a congressional...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Political Profit And The Invention Of Modern Currency
Dec 2008
The Massachusetts currency of 1690 was the first inconvertible paper money to be supported solely by a legal tender law. The circumstances that led to its creation exceed the typical story of...
Provided by Bar - Ilan University
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White Papers
Workers Without Borders: Culture, Migration And The Political Limits To Globalization
Sep 2010
This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics, size and nature (temporary versus permanent migration) of migration policy. The authors show that there exists a broad...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
Private-Activity Municipal Bonds: The Political Economy Of Volume Cap Allocation
Sep 2010
State governments allocate authority, under a federally imposed cap, to issue tax-exempt bonds that fund "Private activities" such as industrial expansion, student loans, and low-income housing....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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Can Political Factors Explain The Behavior Of Stock Prices Beyond The Standard Present Value Models?
Jul 2007
This paper documents that political factors can be linked to the part of stock prices that cannot be explained by the standard present value models. The non-fundamental component of stock market...
Provided by University of Leicester
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Political Connectedness And Firm Performance - Evidence From Germany
Aug 2007
This paper investigates politically connected German firms. With the introduction of a new transparency law, information on additional income sources of all members of the German parliament is now...
Provided by University of Cologne
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White Papers
Political Institutions, Voter Turnout And Policy Outcomes
Nov 2008
The authors question whether the impact of constitutions on economic outcomes (Persson and Tabellini, 2004) is direct. They show that voter turnout is a channel through which forms of government...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Politics And Fiscal Policy Under Lemass: A Theoretical Appraisal
May 2009
Lemass rejected Whitaker's recommendations that direct taxes be reduced and public investment shifted from social to productive areas. This was arguably done for political reasons and because...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Balancing Competimg Demands: Position-Taking And Election Proximity In The European Parliament
Jul 2009
Parties value unity, yet, members of parliament face competing demands, giving them incentives to deviate from the party. For Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), these competing demands are...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Discrimination, Exclusion And Immigrants' Confidence In Public Institutions In Europe
Mar 2010
What determines the confidence of immigrants in public institutions? Using pooled data from the European Social Survey from 26 countries, the paper examines whether processes of social exclusion...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Surveying American Jews And Their Views On Middle East Politics: The Current Situation And A Proposal For A New Approach
May 2007
This working paper takes up three related themes. In section 1, the author briefly describes the issues relevant to surveying American Jews and highlights the importance of authoritative national...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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The American Jewish Committee's Annual Opinion Surveys: An Assessment Of Sample Quality
Jul 2007
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) surveys of Jewish opinion are unique both in being conducted annually and in the subject matter covered. This paper assesses the quality of these samples. The...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks And Balances?
Aug 2011
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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A Political Theory Of Populism
Aug 2011
When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal Now Political
Jul 2011
The author says the phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has become more of a political story than a business story. "What's been exposed here is the overly-cozy...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Webcasts
GreenBiz-BSR Leadership Dinner: Part 2
Feb 2009
GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
GreenBiz-BSR Leadership Dinner: Part 3
Feb 2009
GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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White Papers
Do Local Elections In Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence From Rural China
Apr 2011
The authors use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. They develop a simple model to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Political Economy Of Fiscal Deficits And Government Production
Mar 2009
This paper analyzes a framework where policymakers decide how to spend public resources on physical capital and labor in order to produce two public goods. Candidate policymakers disagree about...
Provided by Norges Bank
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Webcasts
Iran; Cash For Clunkers; The Federal Deficit
Jun 2009
Brookings scholars ponder the developments in Iran as the government cracks down on protests over the presidential election; the public weighs in on the "Cash for clunkers" legislation; and vice...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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President Obamas First Six Months In Office; Kurdish Elections In Iraq
Jul 2009
In this webcast, Brookings experts release a composite index of national and global trends for the first six months of President Obama's term, lining them up against the same point in the five...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Partisanship On Capitol Hill
Mar 2010
Brookings takes an in-depth look at the polarizing effects of partisanship on Capitol Hill. Senior Fellow assesses the situation and offers some insight into how this way of doing business will...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
The Politics And Perils Of Guantánamo
Mar 2010
Opposition to trying alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian court has led the Obama administration to consider a military tribunal instead. Meanwhile, controversy continues over...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Solutions For The Federal Deficit
Oct 2010
The national debt and our yearly deficits have reached staggering heights, just as the nation struggles to recover from a deep and persistent recession, says the presenter, senior fellow and...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Religion And Politics
Oct 2010
Is there a relationship between religion and politics? Yes. Can faith-based doctrine influence election outcomes? Absolutely. Does this present a conflict with the doctrines put forth by the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Assessment Of The 2010 Midterm Elections
Nov 2010
In this webcast, the presenter discusses the results of the 2010 midterm elections. Analyzing the rise of the tea party movement and the evolving attitudes of the American electorate, the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
The History Of The State Of The Union
Jan 2011
Presidential scholar and former White House speech writer the presenter has seen many presidents deliver the State of the Union message, and studied its evolution over the past two centuries. As...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
The Politics And Process Of Congressional Redistricting
Jan 2011
Now that the 2010 Census is concluded, states will begin the process of reapportionment - re-drawing voting district lines to account for population shifts. A Nonresident Senior Fellow, the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Redistricting For Political Gains
Apr 2011
Every decade since 1790, a census of the entire U.S. population is used by state governments to apportion representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. But the redrawing of congressional...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
African Elections And Democracy
Jun 2011
Nations across Africa are holding elections, a good sign for emerging democracies on the continent. However, the presenter says the quality of governance in African nations varies widely. Some...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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White Papers
Term Limits And Electoral Accountability
Dec 2006
Periodic elections are the main instrument through which voters can hold politicians accountable. From this perspective term limits, which restrict voters' ability to reward politicians with...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Strengthening The Roles Of Political Parties In Public Accountability - A Case Study Of A New Approach In Political Party Assistance
Jun 2011
Donors in development cooperation increasingly emphasize the importance of public accountability in developing countries for the good functioning of democratic institutions, governance and the...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
Net-Immigration Of Developing Countries: The Role Of Economic Determinants, Disasters, Conflicts, And Political Instability
Feb 2011
The authors provide regressions for the net immigration flows of developing countries. They show that savings finance emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
Accountability Via Central Database Regimes In The Context Of NSW Political Donations
Jul 2010
The authors examine the extent to which the NSW political finance disclosure regime promotes accountability in order to both improve this case as well as understand how accountability might be...
Provided by Macquarie University
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White Papers
Does Timing Of Elections Instigate Riots? A Subnational Study Of 16 Indian States, 1958 - 2004
Oct 2008
The authors investigate whether timing of the elections leads to riots or not within India. In other words, does timing of elections instigate riots? The theoretical underpinning is that an...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Does Decentralization Matter For Regional Disparities? A Cross-Country Analysis
May 2009
This paper looks at the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and the evolution of regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries - 19 developed and 7 developing - for the...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
Can The Economic Impact Of Political Decentralisation Be Measured?
Jan 2011
This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance. It uses panel data analyses in...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
Decentralization, Happiness And The Perception Of Institutions
Apr 2011
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
Deep Democracy ; A Political And Social Economy Approach
Feb 2007
The main purpose of this paper is to offer a somewhat novel theory of deep democracy from a political and social economy perspective. The theory of deep democracy presented here makes a...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Corruption, Political Connections, And Municipal Finance
Jun 2007
The authors exploit unique features of the U.S. municipal bond underwriting market to assess how political integrity affects primary financial market outcomes. They show that state corruption and...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
Democracy, Judicial Attitudes And Heterogeneity: The Civil Versus Common Law Tradition
May 2009
A key issue in the design of a legal system is the choice of the mechanism aggregating preferences over the level of deterrence. While under Case law appellate judges' biases offset one another at...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Does The Shadow Of Political Risk Fall On Asset Prices?
Jan 2007
This paper investigates the cost of political risk by estimating the discount on the value of real assets - petroleum (crude oil and natural gas) reserves - associated with the country in which...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
The Determinants Of Public Deficit Volatility
Apr 2009
This paper empirically analyzes the political, institutional and economic sources of public deficit volatility. Using the system-GMM estimator for linear dynamic panel data models and a sample of...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Political Marketing: A Conceptual Framework
Jan 2009
The paper presents a broad overview of the concept of political marketing and its significance in the contemporary era of information revolution and democratic resurgence. The paper provides...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Power, Politics And Program Management
Apr 2007
Joseph Algere, a veteran program manager, is a bit perplexed and more than a little frustrated. He just returned to his office from a meeting with the senior manager of his division. Staring at...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
The Characteristics Of Politically Connected Firms
Jun 2007
Evidence from firms in 47 countries shows that companies connected with officials have higher leverage and higher market shares, but they underperform nonconnected companies on an accounting...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
Dec 2007
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
Jan 2008
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
New President, New Congress: What It Means For Global Private Equity
Jan 2010
The Democratic Party firmly in command of both the White House and Congress - 2009 is shaping up to be a year of stepped-up activity on key issues affecting the private equity industry....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Private Equity In Africa - Lessons Learned
Jan 2010
Africa represents a colossal investment opportunity. Containing 23 percent of the world's landmass and nearly one billion people, the continent has exceeded world average growth for the past eight...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Political Connections And The Process Of Going Public: Evidence From China
Feb 2009
This paper examines how political connections impact the process of going public. Specifically, the authors test how political connections impact the pricing of the newly offered shares, the...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Investor Attitudes Towards Risk And Uncertainty And Reactions To Market Turmoil
Jun 2010
In order to assess how individual small investors have reacted to recent adverse events in world financial markets and whether these reactions are mediated by their risk attitudes, a survey was...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Is Political Risk Company-Specific? The Market Side Of The Yukos Affair
Sep 2006
The Yukos affair, a state-led assault on controlling shareholders of a private Russian oil company, once again demonstrated the shaky nature of property rights in emerging markets. Toughening of...
Provided by Bilkent University
-
White Papers
Protection For Free? The Political Economy Of U.S. Tariff Suspensions
Sep 2010
This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. The authors develop a model in which firms...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Resource Windfalls And Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: The Role Of Political Institutions
Jul 2010
The authors examine the effect that revenue windfalls from international commodity price shocks have on sovereign bond spreads using panel data for 30 emerging market economies during the period...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Is There A Novelty Premium On New Financial Instruments?
Mar 2008
This paper provides a political economy analysis of the incentives underpinning a country's decision to enter a regional trade agreement when a multilateral free trade agreement is available, and...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Political Budget Cycles In Papua New Guinea
Sep 2007
This paper assesses the presence of opportunistic electoral budget cycles in Papua New Guinea. Using quarterly time series data, a clear pattern emerges of pre-election manipulations of fiscal...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Decoding Terror
Mar 2009
What message are terrorists trying to send, and how should national leaders respond? That is a question Kellogg School Associate Professor Sandeep Baliga explored at a recent Kellogg School...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
The Return Of The Politician
Jan 2010
Politicians - or, more broadly, government officials - have always played a role in the economy, but that role has been significantly downplayed in recent years. If free markets, free trade, and...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
Webcasts
Political Change In China Is 'Almost Inevitable' But Beijing Has 'Nothing To Fear': Anson Chan
Jan 2011
Asian pro-democracy advocate Anson Chan says China has 'Nothing to fear' in allowing Hong Kong full democracy. China's Communist leadership has signaled the Special Administrative Region can elect...
Provided by INSEAD
-
Webcasts
Next Steps In Domestic Climate Policy: Issues And Innovations
Mar 2009
Dallas Burtraw is Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research. Burtraw's research interests include the design of...
Provided by Regents of the University of Michigan
-
Webcasts
U.S. Macroeconomic Policy: Steps Toward Recovery
Oct 2009
This webcast focuses on the topic "U.S. Macroeconomic Policy: Steps Toward Recovery". The panelists are: Peter Borish is Chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation; Charles L. Evans is...
Provided by Regents of the University of Michigan
-
White Papers
The Profits Of Power: Commercial Realpolitik In Europe And Eurasia
Oct 2010
Old-style realpolitik - bilateral, sentiment-free, and organized by great powers - has returned to Europe, thereby wreaking havoc on traditions of solidarism and multilateralism in the European...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
How Managing Political Risk Improves Global Business Performance
May 2006
Companies doing business internationally are grappling with political issues that sometimes surprise even the most experienced. A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Eurasia Group shows that...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
-
White Papers
Accounting Information As Political Currency
Mar 2008
The authors test whether accounting can be used as political currency. The setting is the US congressional election of 2004, where outsourcing of US jobs was a campaign issue. They find that the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Accountability And Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis Of Vietnam And China
May 2008
Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic growth than China and Vietnam. In this paper, the authors take a deeper look at political institutions in the two...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Political Instability And Untimely Dissolution: Partnerships, Corporations, And The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1929
Apr 2008
This paper is part of a broader research project on the economic impact of the Mexican Revolution. In this paper the authors make an initial approximation of the effect of the Revolution on the...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy Of Education In Brazil, 1889-1930
Mar 2010
This paper explains how state governments got the funds to pay for education and examines the incentives that politicians had to spend on education between 1889 to 1930. The findings are...
Provided by Harvard Business School
-
White Papers
Does Deceptive Advertising Reduce Political Participation? Theory And Evidence
Aug 2009
The authors examine the effect of deceptive advertising on voting decisions in elections. They model two candidate elections in which voters are uncertain about candidates' attributes; and...
Provided by George Mason University
-
White Papers
Deliberative Democracy And Political Ignorance
Oct 2010
Advocates of "Deliberative democracy" want citizens to actively participate in serious dialogue over political issues, not merely go to the polls every few years. Unfortunately, these ideals don't...
Provided by George Mason University
-
White Papers
Political Dynasties
May 2006
We study political dynasties in the United States Congress since its inception in 1789. The authors document patterns in the evolution and profile of political dynasties, study the...
Provided by Brown University
-
White Papers
Cursed Resources? Political Conditions And Oil Market Outcomes
Dec 2010
The authors analyze how a country's political institutions affect oil production within its borders. They find a pronounced negative relationship between political openness and volatility in oil...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
The Doing Business Indicators: Measurement Issues And Political Implications
Jun 2007
The debate on labor market institutions and how they affect employment and economic performance remains controversial. Since the 1980s, it has been argued that Europe's lackluster economic...
Provided by International Labour Organization
-
White Papers
The European Union, European Identity, And Political Cleavages In Turkey
Apr 2009
As an economically-developing country spanning two continents and having a history grounded in both the West and the East, Turkey represents a dramatic case of a "Torn" (Huntington 1993) or...
Provided by Oakland University
-
White Papers
Integration Without Identification? The Determinants Of Europeanness In The EU
Apr 2009
European identity has moved from a possible outcome of integration to a force determining the level of future integration, because without some identification with Europe on the part of the...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Partison Europe - Political Parties And The Implementation Of EU Public Policy
Apr 2009
The domestic implementation of policy made beyond the boundaries of the state is an opportunity for political contestation because it activates long-standing cleavages on the basis of which...
Provided by University of London
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Direct Democracy And Local Public Goods: Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
May 2010
This paper presents an experiment in which 49 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based...
Provided by American Political Science Association
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Inflating The Beast: Political Incentives Under Uncertainty
Jun 2008
The standard view of the political economy of public debt is that myopic and un-constrained politicians prefer to disregard intertemporal smoothing considerations and extract political rents as...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
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Separation Of Powers And The Budget Process
Jun 2006
The authors study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In this model, the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and earmarked...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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The Political Economy Of Warfare
Dec 2006
Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more surprisingly, wars are often quite popular with citizens who stand to gain...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Decision-Making In The Political And Technical Environments
Oct 2006
Mutual misunderstanding between decision-makers in the political and technical environment leads to programs that experience cost overruns, schedule delays and, often, cancellation. This paper...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Bias In Political Communication Experiments
Dec 2010
Research on political communication effects has enjoyed great progress over the past 20 years. A key ingredient underlying these advances is the increased usage of experiments that demonstrate how...
Provided by Northwestern University
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The Political Economy Of The Subprime Mortgage Credit Expansion
Jun 2010
The authors examine how special interests, measured by campaign contributions from the mortgage industry, and constituent interests, measured by the share of subprime borrowers in a congressional...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
