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Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations

The American Economic Review, 2020
In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence.
Emanuele Colonnelli, M. Prem, Edoardo Teso   +2 more
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The Taxing Challenges of the State: Unveiling the Role of Fiscal and Administrative Capacity in Development

CESifo Economic Studies
The growing emphasis on nation-states and their pivotal role in economic development has emerged as a central theme in contemporary economic discourse. This review examines the concept of state capacity as discussed in the economic literature, focusing
Federica Braccioli, Esteban Muñoz-Sobrado, Amedeo Piolatto, A. Zerbini   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Populist Leaders and the Economy

The American Economic Review, 2020
Populism at the country level is at an all-time high, with more than 25 percent of nations currently governed by populists. How do economies perform under populist leaders? We build a new long-run cross-country database to study the macroeconomic history
Manuel Funke, M. Schularick, Christoph Trebesch   +2 more
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E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020
Can e-governance reforms improve government policy? By making information available on a real-time basis, information technologies may reduce the theft of public funds.
A. Banerjee, E. Duflo, Clément A. C. Imbert, Santhosh Mathew, R. Pande   +4 more
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The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics

Social Science Research Network
We study the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. Using subnational georeferenced data from 15 countries from 1996 to 2017, we compare individuals from ethnicities linked to parties at the margin of electing a ...
Francesco Amodio, Giorgio Chiovelli, Sebastian Hohmann   +2 more
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The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV

The American Economic Review, 2019
We study the political impact of commercial television in Italy exploiting the staggered introduction of Berlusconi’s private TV network, Mediaset, in the early 1980s.
Ruben Durante, P. Pinotti, A. Tesei
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Invisible Hand of the Government: Moral Suasion during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2019
Using proprietary data on banks’ monthly securities holdings, we show that during the European sovereign debt crisis, domestic banks in fiscally stressed countries were considerably more likely than foreign banks to increase their holdings of domestic ...
S. Ongena, Alexander A. Popov, N. V. Horen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

, 2015
R. Burgess, R. Jedwab, E. Miguel, A. Morjaria, G. P. Miquel   +4 more
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Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War

, 2015
Melissa Dell
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From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023
We study whether social media can amplify antiminority sentiment with a focus on Donald Trump’s political rise. Using an instrumental variable strategy based on Twitter’s early adopters at the South by Southwest festival in 2007, we find that higher ...
Karsten Müller, Carlo Schwarz
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