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The Institutional Determinants of Economic Policy Outcomes: by Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins; Why do some democracies choose economic policies that promote economic growth, while others seem incapable of prospering? Why are some polities able toprovide the public goods that are necessary for...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: May 2000 More

The Sociology of Immigration and Host Societies: Second Thoughts and Reconsiderations: by Roger Waldinger; The contemporary study of immigration has come a long a way — or at least so it seems to someone whose interests in the subject were first sparked in that prehistoric era we call the late 1970s....; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: April 2000 More

A Structural Model of Government Formation: by Daniel Diermeier and Antonio Merlo; In this paper we estimate a bargaining model of government formation in parliamentary democracies. We use the estimated structural model to conduct policy experiments aimed at evaluating the impact...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: December 1999 More

What Drives Deregulation? Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions: by Randall Kroszner and Philip Strahan; This paper investigates private–interest, public–interest, and political–institutional theories of regulatory change to analyze state–level deregulation of bank branching restrictions. Using...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 1999 More

When Do Special Interests Run Rampant? Disentangling the Role of Elections, Incomplete Information and Checks and Balances in Ba: by Philip Keefer; This paper investigates the political determinants of government decisions that benefit special interests, and specifically government decisions to deal with banking crises. I find that governments...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: November 1999 More

Rent Appropriation and Sustained Growth: by Robinson, James A.; This paper demonstrates that the introduction of imperfect competition into the labor market can solve the problem isolated by Jones and Manuelli (Journal of Economic Theory, 1992, 58, 171–197),...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: January 1996 More

Residential Inequality and Segregation in an Immigration Era: Race/ethnicity and Location in the Larger Metropolitan Regions of: by Richard Alba; Three conceptions of incorporation dominate the contemporary discussion of immigration to the U.S. At one vertex of a triangle of possibilities is assimilation, associated with gradual cultural,...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: More

How Many Years? The White Ethnic Hierarchy in New York, 1880-1970: by John Logan; Writings on race and ethnicity in the contemporary United States often use previous historical periods as a point of comparison. This is a natural choice, because there are strong parallels between...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: More