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Redefining the Economy: how the 'economy' was invented 1620
… indicator. Instead GDP is our definition of the economy, which I argue by presenting the history of how we have measured the economy through national accounts. GDP, it turns out, is simply the most recent consensus definition of what the economy is. So this is the history of how we have defined, …
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Essays on political economy
Esta tese é composta por três ensaios em economia política. No primeiro ensaio, eu investigo o impacto da introdução de um mecanismo de incentivo, direcionado a prefeitos brasileiros, que visava melhorar o desempenho de estudantes de escolas do governo local. O mecanismo de incentivo oferecia um …
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Essays on Political Economy
<p>“Essays on Political Economy” explores the connections between politics and economics in several different contexts. By politics, or more precisely the political game, I mean the social procedures through which collective decisions are made. By economics I mean the economic game once collective …
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Migration & Economy in Cornwall
Cornwall is arguably the poorest county in England, but since the 1960s it has been the recipient of some of the highest levels of in-migration. The result of this has seen Cornwall experience some of fastest rates of population growth. This has taken place in the context of counterurbanisation, a …
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Essays in Political Economy
<p>This dissertation explores the connection between voter turnout and candidate polarization. The first chapter considers a voting game with turnout and endogenous candidates, and maps the equilibria of the game under different assumptions regarding citizen's preferences over policy. The second …
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Essays in Political Economy
… dissertation presents three essays in Political Economy with different approaches, but a single line of inquiry: how can political institutions shape individual behaviors by modifying the incentives of political actors? Krugman and Wells (2005) defines economics as "the study of economies, at …
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Essays on Political Economy
Chapter Three explores how the economic environment may shape individual preferences, which are typically taken as exogenous when modeling individual behavior. Despite the fact that agents can trade at comparative prices, agents modify their preferences so that they favor the good that they are …
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Essays on Political Economy
"Political competition and candidate strategies are examined in this dissertation. In chapter 1, a theoretical model of informative campaigning, both positive and negative, is developed. It is argued that some information on a candidate can be transmitted more efficiently by his opponents and the …
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Essays in political economy
This dissertation studies game theoretical models for political competition and a class of coordination games, it also includes a chapter focusing on estimation of the U.S. legislators' ideal points in multiple meaningful dimensions. The first chapter presents a formal political competition model …
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Essays in political economy
In this dissertation I consider the application of an economic framework to situations outside of traditional economics. I look at two areas: the first is the behavior of politicians in dynamic elections and the second is addiction in online video games. I show how the power of economic incentives …
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South Africa's generational economy
… impact of the structure of the population on the economy has gained momentum. Analytically, it is the recognition that engagement in the economy and the resulting economic flows between individuals vary with age that underpins this impact: children consume more than they produce; prime working-age …
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Essays in political economy
… thesis consists of three chapters on political economy. Each chapter explores the effects of a change to the equilibrium of a given market. In the first chapter, Jon Weigel and I study a randomized controlled trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on corruption at tolls. We randomly vary …
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Essays in political economy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Essays on political economy
Essay 1: The Effect of Political Alignment on Transfers to Portuguese Municipalities. In this paper, I use financial data of Portuguese municipalities (1992-2005) to investigate if political alignment between the central government and a local government brings financial benefit to local …
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Essays in Political Economy
In this thesis, I describe three approaches to political communication and decision-making. Chapter 1, ``Persuasion with Ambiguous Receiver Preferences,'' studies an informed Sender who knows only the average threshold belief needed to persuade a Receiver and wishes to safeguard against unfavorable …
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Essays in political economy
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter is an empirical investigation of social change, looking at the Prohibition Era in the U.S. It explores how the implementation of policies affects the evolution of beliefs about their effects, giving rise to a feedback between preferences …
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Essays on Political Economy
… is a collection of three papers on political economy that explore several of the most salient political events in recent decades, including the rise in affective polarization, protests, and high levels of corruption in developing countries. These events can severely affect the success of …
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Essays on political economy
This thesis consists of three essays on economics focusing on the determinants of regime change and economic growth. I put the focus primarily on political, institutional, and historical factors. I started working on these topics after studying the importance of regime change and institutions in …
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Essays on digital economy
… behavior and firm strategy in the digital economy. The first chapter examines how consumers learn from their market experience in an online marketplace. Using consumers' six-month purchase history data in a unique empirical setting in one of China's largest e-commerce platforms, I find that …
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