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Domestic Politics of International Financial Rescues: Congressional Voting on Bailouts in the 1990s: by Broz, J. Lawrence; In the 1990s, the American Executive organized financial rescues of Mexico and several Asian economies. These rescues ("bailouts" to detractors) were controversial in Congress, where...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2002 More

After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies: by Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz; When Russia launched mass privatization, it was widely believed that it would create a powerful constituency for the rule of law. That didn?t happen. We present a dynamic equilibrium model of the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: October 2002 More

Partisanship and Trade Policy: Is There a Left-Right Divide on Trade Policy?: by Milner, Helen V.; Judkins, Benjamin; Is there a noticeable difference among political parties in a country in their trade policy positions? Do left parties advocate different trade policies than right parties? In the advanced...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: August 2002 More

Privatization, Institutions and Performance: Telecommunications in Africa: by Roger Noll and Mary Shirley; Nearly all of Sub–Saharan Africa is extremely poor. While a few countries in Asia, Latin America and Oceania are comparably poor, no other region has as many poor people and undeveloped countries....; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: June 2002 More

Does Democracy Engender Equality?: by John E. Roemer; Many suppose that democracy is an ethos which requires, inter alia, a degree of economic equality among citizens. In contrast, we conceive of democracy as ruthless electoral competition between...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A Transactions Approach with Application to Argentina: by Pablo Spiller and Mariano Tommasi; Public policies are the outcomes of complex intertemporal exchanges among politicians. The political institutions of a country constitute the framework within which these transactions are...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

Accountability and Political Competition: Theory and Evidence: by Tim Besley and Ian Preston; One of the central issues in political economy concerns how to create a form of government that responds to voters needs. The preconditions for achieving this are widely debated. Recent interest has...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2002 More

Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?: by Alesina, Alberto; Glaeser, Edward; Sacerdote, Bruce; European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre–tax...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2001 More

Majoritarian Electoral Systems and Consumer Power: Price-Level Evidence from the OECD Countries: by Ronald Rogowski and Mark Andreas Kayser; A straightforward extension of the standard Stigler–Peltzman model of regulation, coupled with the Taagepera–Shugart analysis of electoral–system effects, suggests: (a) that the greater the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: October 2001 More

Banking Crises and the Effect of Political Checks and Balances on Special Interest Influence: by Philip Keefer; This paper — a revision of an earlier draft that was entitled "When Do Special Interests Run Rampant? Disentangling the Role of Elections, Incomplete Information and Checks and Balances in...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: October 2001 More

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