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Open AccessIdeological ambiguity and political spectrum
This study examines the relationship between ambiguity and the ideological positioning of political parties across the political spectrum. We identify a strong non-monotonic (inverted U-shaped) relationship be...
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Open AccessPolitical and non-political side activities in an agency framework
This paper studies side activities, including political activities, in the context of a hidden action agency problem. Given increases in the number of employees working from home and increases in managerial po...
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Open AccessProperty rights, transaction costs, and the limits of the market
To clarify the determinants and interaction of property rights and transaction costs, I study the design of the property rights on either a good whose consensual transfer entails a transaction inefficiency or ...
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Open AccessCorporate income tax competition and efficient tax base equalization
The literature on tax competition argues that the representative tax system (RTS), which is a standard form of tax base equalization, can internalize interregional externalities due to capital mobility. Althou...
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Open AccessHeterogeneity, coordination and competition: the distribution of individual preferences in organisations
This paper experimentally investigates how inter- and intragroup heterogeneity (related to individual cooperative preferences) influences intergroup coordination. Coordination incentives are implemented throug...
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Open AccessState politics and gender diversity in sport governance
This study investigates the relationship between state politics and sport governance based on an institutional framework and the concept of spillover effects. Specifically, it examines whether spillover effect...
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Open AccessA theory of autocratic transition by government leaders: prerequisites to self-enforcing democracy
This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the conditions of self-enforcing democracy by analyzing the recent wave of autocratic transitions. Based on a game-theoretic framework, we work out ...
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Open AccessShocks to issue salience and electoral competition
We propose a two party electoral competition model to analyze the effects of an exogenous shock over the relative issue salience on the strategic policy choices of the parties. We find that both parties strate...
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Open AccessNew evidence on the link between ethnic fractionalization and economic freedom
Among the determinants of economic freedom, the presence of different ethnic groups within a country has sometimes been explored by the empirical literature, without conclusive evidence on the sign of the rela...
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Open AccessDoes expenditure in public governance guarantee less corruption? Non-linearities and complementarities of the rule of law
Corruption is an endemic societal problem with profound implications in the development of nations. In combating this issue, cross-national evidence supporting the effectiveness of the rule of law seems at odd...
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Open AccessDemocratizing Tech Giants! A roadmap
How society should deal with the self-strengthening Tech Giants is a much-discussed issue. We suggest to democratize them by giving users a say in their decisions. With newly-developed collective decision rule...
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Open AccessPolitical leadership and the quality of public goods and services: Does religion matter?
Despite some indications to the contrary, religion still plays an important role in contemporary society. In this paper, the association between religion and the quality of public goods and services, measured ...
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Open AccessWeighted voting on the IMF Managing Director
Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund elect the Fund’s Managing Director from a shortlist of three candidates; financial quotas of IMF members define the respective numbers of votes. The impli...
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Open AccessDo victims of crime trust less but participate more in social organizations?
We explore how crime victimization affects two of the main dimensions of social capital: trust and participation in social groups. Using a large database that includes many Latin American countries, we find th...
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Open AccessThe costs of organized violence: a review of the evidence
I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political grou**s, such as states, religious and ethnic organizations, guerillas and paramil...
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Open AccessMedia activity and public spending
Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocati...
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Open AccessKings and Vikings: on the dynamics of competitive agglomeration
This paper proposes a theory of competitive agglomeration—a new enquiry into the origins of hierarchical structures and governments. As a motivating example we analyze the Viking age—the roughly 300 year perio...
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Open AccessThe conflict mitigating effects of trade in the India-Pakistan case
We examine whether greater inter-state trade, democracy and reduced military spending lower belligerence between India and Pakistan, beginning with a theoretical model covering the opportunity costs of conflic...
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Open AccessNational self-insurance and self-protection against adversity: bureaucratic management of security and moral hazard
This paper extends existing analyses of self-insurance and self-protection—distinctions first made by Ehrlich and Becker (J Polit Econ 80:623–648, 1972)—that countries may implement at a national level in purs...
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