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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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Essays in Political Economy
… the impact of measures to increase turnout on political polarization.</p>
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Essays in Political Economy
This 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
… 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 with …
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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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Essays in political economy
This 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 …
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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
… Rulers require the support of a subset of politically powerful groups to remain in power. These have private information about their cost of providing political support. A ruler can attempt to exploit the competitive nature of the coalition formation game to induce revelation. Its ability …
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Essays on Political Economy
… dissertation 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 …
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Essays on political economy
… 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 the modern economics literature. The first essay analyzes how media can be a powerful tool to …
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Essays in political economy
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first two chapters explore how different organizational forms, and in particular different hiring and firing practices, affect bureaucracies. In the first chapter, I study how the introduction of merit systems reducing politicians' control over police …
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Essays on political economy
… the concentration of campaign contributions from Political Action Committees to proxy capture of politicians by special interests, and compare the reaction to increases in concentration by voters covered by two types of media markets - in-state and out-of-state media markets. Unlike in-state media …
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Essays in Internationsl Political Economy
… three important questions in international political economy: The long run consequences of social divisions created by historical colonialism, the importance of trade shocks in shifting political power balances and shaping institutional development and the influence that major political …
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