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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Political Economics"”.
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Three essays in political economics
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1991.
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Essays in Political Economics and Networks
This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics and the role of social connections. In Chapter 1, I examine how competitive elections, as measured by margin of victory and fundraising outcomes, affect legislator behavior during the following legislative session. Focusing on the …
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Essays in Environmental and Political Economics
… thesis explores questions in environmental and political economics over four chapters. In the first chapter, I investigate theoretically how and why some polluting firms may politically support environmental taxes. In chapter two I present a new theoretical framework for quantifying the impact …
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Essays in political economics and information acquisition
… of government goods and services. Recent work in economics has estimated that up to 80% of voters are strategic. We use a clean quasi experiment to highlight the shortcomings of previous identification strategies, which fail to fully account for the strategic behavior of parties. In an ideal …
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The political-economics of privatizing mental health: A study of the relationships between ownership of mental health clinics with professional advocacy and client creaming
… Privatization is the context for the study. Political-economic theory provides the framework for the study. The study discusses the methodological problems of empirically investigating propositions in the privatization debate, and the problems involved in operationalizing classifications of …
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The International Monetary Fund and The Global South: A Comparative Analysis
… consequences of those programs and how their political economics were re-structured post-implementation. It is hoped that from my analysis, I may make suggestions for improvement of these programs, as well as assess, analyze, and understand the neoliberal model of restructuring a State's …
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Cultural attitudes to corruption : a perspective on the interplay between cultural and legal norms for Western businesses operating in China
… it are also more broadly relevant to politics, political economics and governance. Through an introduction to some of the features of Chinese culture which differ most from Western culture, this study provides a cultural perspective to a consideration of normative anti-corruption legislation and …
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Essays on Public and Environmental Economics
… The second chapter of my dissertation is on the political economics of corruption. This is a relevant question in the Environmental Economics due to the human factors involved in government regulations. We investigate the effects of unhindered corruption in the entry-certifying process of an …
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Essays in Optimal Fiscal Policy
… weights but welfare of the agents does not. Political economics implications are discussed. The second article analyses the impact of heterogeneous productivity trends on the optimal policy when the social planner can use transfers. There is now conflict over the timing and the level of …
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Trajectories of Innovation: Measurements, Models & Interventions
… engineering, scientometrics, evolutionary economics, operations research, and political economics literatures. Using these views as a baseline, this thesis derives proof-of-concept methods to trace technological evolution through complex networks from first principles, elucidating sequences …
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Advances in spatial econometrics and the political economy of local housing supply
This cumulative dissertation consists of five chapters. In terms of research content, my thesis can be divided into two parts. Part one examines local interactions and spillover effects between small regional governments using spatial econometric methods. The second part focuses on patterns within …
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Corruption, good governance, and the African state : a critical analysis of the political-economic foundations of orruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
… are often called corrupt indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent in the economically advanced democracies. This however does not give us any insight into what makes corruption the ruling norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the overly neglected …
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Developing Batam :Indonesian political economy under the new order
… transformation, physically, economically and politically. This study describes and analyses that transformation. Whilst the results of development on Batam Island before 1988 were quite limited, and highly reliant on the oil industry, changes to the investment regime in 1989, as well as other …
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Developing Batam :Indonesian political economy under the new order
… transformation, physically, economically and politically. This study describes and analyses that transformation. Whilst the results of development on Batam Island before 1988 were quite limited, and highly reliant on the oil industry, changes to the investment regime in 1989, as well as other …
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Essays in Information Economics
… of three essays in the field of information economics. The first essay studies manipulation of information by partisan media. The recent increase in partisan media has generated interest in what drives media outlets to become more partisan. I develop a model to study the role of diffusion of …