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Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper

Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: A Survey

Joan Costa-Font and Frank A Cowell

Social identity is increasingly accepted as a key concept underpin- ning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. This feature is especially important in explaining redistribution preferences as well as att...Read more...

1 August 2015

Development Discussion Paper

Soldiers or Bureaucrats? Conflict and the Military’s Role in Policy-Making

Gabriel Leon

One of the most striking institutional features of many less developed countries is that their militaries are closely involved in policy-making, potentially having a large impact on economic outcomes. This paper examines...Read more...

July 2009

Political Economy and Public Policy Paper

Cross-Country Determinants of Life Satisfaction: Exploring Different Determinants across Groups in Society

Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher and Justina A.V. Fischer

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinant...Read more...

September 2006

Theoretical Economics Paper

Financial Institutions and The Wealth of Nations: Tales of Development

Jian Tong and Chenggang Xu

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial develop...Read more...

March 2004

Development Economics Paper

Private Investment and Political Uncertainty

David Stasavage

Recent theoretical and empirical work has demonstrated a clear negative link between macroeconomic and political uncertainty and levels of private investment across countries. This result raises the question what institu...Read more...

July 2000

Development Economics Paper

The Economics of Non-Governmental Organisations.

R. Hopkins and C.D. Scott

The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisational comparative advantage of NGOs, and to develop a model which explains the set of circumstances uder which they emerge and dominate other types of firms. It is ar...Read more...

May 1999

Japanese Studies Programme Paper

Ideology and Economic Activity

Michio Morishima

In considering ideology and economic activity, ideology is defined as a system of beliefs which binds people together into a social grouping. This is synonymous with religion as defined by Durkheim (1912) and, as a defi...Read more...

January 1986