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Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of their constituents, special interest groups and party when deciding on legislative proposals. Preferences of constituents, special interest groups and parties are directly...
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The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
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German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
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What factors lead underrepresented groups to gain more political representation? I digitize a novel source of data that contains records of Hispanics elected to public office from the local to the federal level from 1984 to 1994 and exploit variation in legal status arising from the 1986...
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urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … or urbanization- explain new firm's location. And second, using the coefficients obtained in these estimations for both … market pooling mechanism. For the industries with higher effect of urbanization economies on their location patterns …
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The paper studies trends in the urbanization in Russia and compares them with the global ones. Russia has high level of … urbanization, urban population reached 73% in 1990, and the rate of urbanization fluctuates around this level past 20 years. The …, 1999, and 2004. The paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of the urbanization to the economic development and …
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specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …
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"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …
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Ever since the twenty-first century, the Chinese government has been undertaking a series of rural-favored policies and measures to promote comprehensive development in rural China. The fundamental purpose is to accomplish integrated urban-rural development (IURD) given the ever enlarging...
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