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| Burkhart, Ross E.; de Soysa, Indra. |
| Pessimists on globalization claim that liberalization of markets allows multinational corporations free reign, constraining local autonomy and precipitating a "race to the bottom" that will endanger recent democratic gains. The optimists see the end of dirigiste economic models as favorable for political liberalization, envisioning foreign direct investment (FDI) as one way in which to transfer wealth to poor societies, leading to democracy. The most recent literature assesses this debate using FDI flows. We believe that FDI stocks is a superior variable, and captures the underlying idea of "saturation point" better. We create models of democracy and use estimates of FDI stock for 107-120 countries over the 1970-2000 time period as a principal control... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18729 |
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| Cotterill, Ronald W.. |
| This paper is an essay in political economy. It defines globalization and discusses its key role in economic development over the past two centuries as well as today. Globalization may have broadened markets, thereby affecting the nature of competition within those larger markets, or it may have simply introduced more trade or foreign direct investment to existing markets. One conclusion is that there is no global market for high value food, or for any particular high value food. To date the impacts of multinational firms in political forums at the state, regional or national as well as the global level have been in many instances as important as their impacts on economic markets. Issues and concerns discussed range from general observations on governance... |
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Palavras-chave: International Development; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25206 |
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| Sinabell, Franz; Schmid, Erwin; Pitlik, Hans. |
| The introduction of decoupled direct payments in the EU was a substantial change of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003. After decoupling direct payments from production, it has become evident, that distributional objectives are the major justification of farm payments. There are three facets: the distribution of payments among farmers within member states, the distribution of payments among member states, and the distribution of household incomes within member states. All of them will be affected if the volume and allocation of funds for the CAP will be changed in the new financial framework of the EU. The paper addresses the first distributional aspects. We provide an overview of the development of past and present research and findings on the... |
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Palavras-chave: Direct Payments; Distribution; Common Agricultural Policy.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy; Q18. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44819 |
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| Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| Important changes took place in agricultural policies in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. The dramatic nature of the changes are illustrated by two years, a century apart: 1860 and 1960. In the 1860s European nations agree on a series of trade agreements which spread free trade across the continent. In the 1960s European nations conclude an international agreement which spreads heavy government intervention and protection against imports across the continent. This paper reviews the nature and the causes of these dramatic changes in agricultural and trade policies, from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century, when agricultural policies are integrated in (what is to become) the European Union. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy; Agricultural Policy; Europe; Historical Perspective; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43859 |
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| Kirchhoff, Stefanie; Ibanez, Ana Maria. |
| The armed conflict over economic and political power in Colombia has led to the massive displacement of people living in the areas of violence. The design of appropriate policies of prevention, assistance, and resettlement requires improved information on the determinants and effects of displacement. This paper contributes to providing such information by using household survey data collected at expulsory and receptor locations. First, we develop a conceptual framework for analyzing the factors which influence a household's decision to leave its area of origin for an uncertain future or to stay and risk being the victim of violence. Using econometric analysis, the framework is then used to examine the significance and relative importance of the... |
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Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18754 |
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| Soubeyran, Raphael. |
| We present a general model of two players contest with two types of efforts. Contrary to the classical models of contest, where each player chooses a unique effort, and where the outcome depends on the efforts of all the players, contestants are allowed to reduce the effort of the opponent. Defence increases ones chance of winning while attack annihilates the defence of the opponent. This model has many applications like political campaigning, wars, competition among lobbies, job promotion competitions, or sport contests. We study the general model of contest with attacks and defence and propose an application to negative political campaigns, where two candidates arbitrate between disparaging their opponent or enhancing their own image. We propose... |
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Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12199 |
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| Larue, Bruno; Lapan, Harvey E.; Gervais, Jean-Philippe. |
| Tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) have replaced quotas at the end of the Uruguay Round. We analyze TRQs when a foreign firm competes against a domestic firm in the latter’s market. Our benchmark is the strategic rent-shifting tariff. We show that the domestic price-equivalent TRQ is a better instrument welfare-wise, as it can extract all of the rents from the foreign firm. We show that different pairs of within-quota tariff and quota can support full rent extraction. The implication is that reduction of the former and enlargement of the latter, holding the above-quota tariff constant, may have no liberalizing effects. The first-best TRQ and the strategic tariff generate different prices. When firms have identical and constant marginal cost, the first-best TRQ... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Financial Economics; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90591 |
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| Ihne, Hartmut. |
| Minority rights play a significant role in development policy, especially within inhomogeneous societies. The justification of minority rights is linked to the justification of human rights. The study develops elements of a new typology of minorities against the background of the question of legal claims of minorities and groups. This typology can become part of a mechanism to decide which type of minority may make justified claims to special rights. |
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Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18762 |
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| Tisdell, Clement A.. |
| A feature of the research contribution of Konrad Hagedorn is his proposals for the integration of economic, social and political dimensions of agricultural policy. His wholistic approach involves, in part, an extension of new institutionalism to public policy. This article identifies a number of difficulties that arise in choosing public policies for regulating externalities generated by agricultural activity. First, it is noted that finding an economically efficient agricultural policy can be difficult because the functions involved can be irregular – they may involve features associated with the mathematics of catastrophe. This adds to the complexity of public decision-making and adds to the bounds in rational choice. Secondly, in the light of the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural policy; Public policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Political Economy; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55107 |
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