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Publikováno v:
Kyklos. 76:161-178
Autor:
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
Autor:
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
Autor:
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 10:95-121
Women remain underrepresented in politics and it remains unclear how this might change. In this paper, we investigate whether female council candidates receive more preferential votes when a female mayor has been recently elected into office. We hand
Autor:
Zohal Hessami
Publikováno v:
The Review of Economics and Statistics. 100:51-64
Political agency models suggest that elected public officials choose different policies than appointed officials do. This paper is the first (a) to apply a clean empirical design to study whether t...
Autor:
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami
Publikováno v:
Economics & Politics. 29:252-275
One possible explanation for the European sovereign debt crises is that the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) gave rise to consolidation fatigue or even deliberate over-borrowing. This paper explores the validity of this explanation by study
Autor:
Zohal Hessami
Publikováno v:
Kyklos. 69:263-293
Summary Direct democracy may impose significant information demands on voters, especially when individual propositions are highly complex. Yet, it remains theoretically ambiguous how proposition complexity affects referendum outcomes. To explore this
A political-economy perspective on social expenditures: corruption and in-kind versus cash transfers
Autor:
Silke Uebelmesser, Zohal Hessami
Publikováno v:
Economics of Governance. 17:71-100
This paper presents a novel political-economy perspective on the composition of social expenditures. We take into account the possibility that institutions are weak, i.e. there is corruption, and analyze how this affects the government’s choice bet
Autor:
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Zohal Hessami
Publikováno v:
The World Economy. 38:1880-1911
We investigate whether globalisation has affected the nature of collective bargaining in OECD and emerging countries. The main innovations over the existing empirical literature are (i) the consideration of three distinct aspects of collective bargai
Autor:
Zohal Hessami
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Political Economy. 34:372-389
This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is indicated by em