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ABSTRACT The interconnection of urban critical infrastructure poses new challenges to the secure operation of power grid‐centric urban lifeline systems. The interdependencies among infrastructure systems increase the risk of cascading fault propagation, thereby threatening urban public safety.
Chengeng Zhang +3 more
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Does the political regime experienced during youth have long-lasting effects on political beliefs and preferences? I exploit time and country variation in political regimes in Latin America using data from the 1995 to 2010 Latinobarometer and find that ...
Matias Brum
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The political economy of european monetary integration
Article originally published in Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, vol. 42 n. 172, March 1990, pp. 3-20. Text of the speech of the 1989 Einaudi lecture.
Luigi Spaventa
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Free or Fair Elections? The Introduction of Electronic Voting in Brazil
This paper studies the phased-in introduction of electronic voting in Brazil to disentangle the effects of free and fair elections on politicians’ responsiveness to voters’ demands.
Rodrigo Schneider
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I Sell My Vote, and So What? Incidence, Social Bias, and Correlates of Clientelism in Colombia
Exchanging one’s vote for particularistic benefits—practices usually grouped under clientelism—is often thought to weaken programmatic links between citizens and politicians and disincentivize public good provision, as well as undermine voter autonomy ...
Leopoldo Fergusson +2 more
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Nowadays the sport related civic organizations form a special segment within the civic sector. In particular, the current situation of these organizations – who are operating in rural settlements – should be considered as special.
György Szabados +3 more
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Testing for spillovers in naira exchange rates: The role of electioneering & global financial crisis
This study offers a new dimension to the analysis of spillover transmission in foreign exchange markets by accounting for the role of electioneering in addition to the global financial crisis.
Afees A. Salisu, Taofeek O. Ayinde
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In this study, we explore the volatility structure of BIST 100 index returns through Markov Regime Switching VAR model in the domain of credit risk indicators of Turkey.
Samet Gunay
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Deregulation: From Theory to Practice
This paper links microeconomic theory with the political economy of regulation. We explain why modern economies tend to become persistently over-regulated and we outline a practical strategy for deregulation.
Federico Sturzenegger
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Propaganda to a cynical audience
Using a model, we explain why propaganda in autocracies can be blatantly false and unconvincing. We model two news outlets that report on a hidden state of the world, motivated by the ex-post beliefs of the audience about the state of the world.
Alexei Zakharov
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