[PDF] Top 20 Essays on political and public economics

... wealth and its distribution on the level of ...group and their wealth affect between and within-group income ...wealth, and its distribution affects both conflict intensity and ... See full document

... Meanguera and Oscicala, two neighboring regions just separated by the Torola ...Meanguera and not ...conservative and conformist municipality regarding the election of their local representatives, ... See full document

... general-equilibrium political-economy model for the op- timal size and composition of public ...categories: public consumption goods and transfers (valued by households), as well as ... See full document

... elaborate on the type of communication schemes under a network ...announcement on his intention of ...improvement on the observed behavior in the ...announcement and communicate these ... See full document

... articulate political views, but their effectiveness is ...Boycott on the stock prices of affected firms, and find that it had no clear ...(Michaels and Zhi, 2010); lower French car sales in ... See full document

... crime and how to allocate these ...surveillance and the resources spent to manage detention centers, subject to an intertemporal budget ...expenditure, and the behavior of adults is out of the scope ... See full document

... Bertrand and Kramarz (2002) exploit a French regulation requiring regional approval for the opening of large retail ...entry and high levels of concentration among large retail chains significantly reduce ... See full document

... In public finance, the evaluation of the social costs of taxes was pioneered by Harberger ...Gottfried and Wiegard (1991); Piggott and Whalley ...taxes, and they do not analyze the welfare ... See full document

... findings on land prices are consistent with the so-called paternalistic view of the behavior of the planter elite after the Civil War discussed in Alston and Ferrie (1985, 1993, ...Alston and Ferrie ... See full document

... immigrants and their descendants in their population, often accompanied by the typical problems of integration like ghettoization, lower education, higher unemployment, and (perceived) higher crime ... See full document

... Spillovers and Local Public Goods" is a rst attempt to analyze some issues related to the effects of spatial spillovers in urban structure and the provision of local public goods under the ... See full document

... case and the quality of the information ...improve on this by using a novel and rich database with information on recent corruption scandals that affected Spanish local ...news) and ... See full document

... high and persistent unemployment rates during and after the Great Recession of 2008 and because of claims that “structural factors” are behind this development (Kocherlakota, ...data on posted ... See full document

... endowment and money demand ...expectations and the money demand ...target, and make inflation ...expectations and the CB sets monetary policy under ...simple and I can easily illustrate ... See full document

... Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), covering the years 1992 to ...1998 and 2004 new cohorts were added to keep the sample representative for those of age 51 and ...her and the other family ... See full document

... fixed and variable payments of the workers over the whole period of analysis and in three different subsamples: steady state I, adjustment period and steady state ...payment and the total ... See full document

... (1.11) and labor supply equations (1.12) for both countries j = f 1; 2 g and risk sharing condition ...light on the planner’s intratemporal and intertemporal allocation ...employment ... See full document

... Mehra and Prescott 1985, the literature has tried to understand why risky assets are less demanded than what rational mod- els would ...market and making non-profitable for rational traders to bet too much ... See full document

... English and the Anglo-Dutch auctions. By allowing entry conditional on some private information (entry conditional on bidding behavior), the two-stage entry auction improves upon the most efficient ... See full document

... infrastructure and human ...focuses on the role of the various factors of production with special emphasis on the gap in transport infrastructure provision, private business capital and human ... See full document