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Political Economy and Public Policy Paper

The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Stephen J. Redding and Daniel M. Sturm

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic de...Read more...

August 2005

Political Economy and Public Policy Paper

Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States

Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson and Daniel M. Sturm

One of the most cherished propositions in economics is that market competition by and large raises consumer welfare. But whether political competition has similarly virtuous consequences is far less discussed. This paper...Read more...

June 2005