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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2010 The goal of this paper is to suggest that municipalities can facilitate the central government’s ability to carry out its desired policy goals. Using three institutional variables that provide internal evidence for each case, I will argue that within ...
Tracy Beck Fenwick
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2010 The article is an introduction to the topic featured in JPLA 2/2010 "Subnational Authoritarianism and Democratization in Latin America." It discusses the papers by Carlos Gervasoni, Agustina Giraudy, Julián Durazo Herrmann, Alfred P.
Edward L. Gibson
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The vanishing bequest tax. The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective [PDF]
Bequest tax revenues have been constantly declining in all OECD countries for at least seventy years. We propose an explanation which is based on a dynamic politico-economic model where the evolution of bequest taxation is determined by wealth inequality.
Graziella Bertocchi
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François Roffiaen's terrestrial and freshwater gastropod types in the collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences [PDF]
ZooKeysJean François Xavier Roffiaen (1820–1898) was a Belgian landscape painter with a profound interest in malacology. A founding member of the Société malacologique de Belgique, Roffiaen contributed several publications on molluscs.
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador +4 more
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No news in business cycles [PDF]
This paper uses a structural, large dimensional factor model to evaluate the role of `news' shocks (shocks with a delayed effect on productivity) in generating the business cycle.
Luca Gambetti, Luca Sala, Mario Forni
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Migrant Business Networks and FDI [PDF]
This paper studies the effects of migration on the bilateral FDI of four European countries, Germany, Italy, France and the U.K. It is based on four distinct datasets with time spans going from 1990 to 2004. It focuses on the impact on FDI of skilled and
Marina Murat, Sara Flisi
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Industrial Policy and Artisan Firms in Italy, 1945-1981 [PDF]
This paper shows that after the Second World War the Italian state carried out an artisanship policy (that is, for the smallest firms) of an extent that was unparalleled in Europe. This policy was based on the provision, on the one hand, of lower tax and
Alberto Rinaldi, Giuseppe Maria Longoni
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2010 Data for 17 Latin American countries collected by Latinobarómetro 2005 reveal that dissatisfaction with democracy is a sign of progress. Political stability and increased governmental effectiveness enable the better-educated leftish young to express ...
Brian J. L. Berry +1 more
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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach [PDF]
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women.
Costanza Torricelli +2 more
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Signalling, Social Status and Labor Income Taxes [PDF]
We investigate the effects of introducing a linear labor income tax under the assumptions that individuals have concerns for social status, that they can signal their relative standing by spending on a conspicuous good, and that the tax revenue is ...
Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli
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