Studies of income and regime type typically contrast democracies and autocracies, ignoring heterogeneity in the character of authoritarian regimes. We focus on the consequences of personalist rule, wh
Assessment of the political and economic situation of the country. Attitude to the European Community. Topics: Judgement on general development of the country; judgement on the financial development o
This is the replication package for "The Corporatization of Independent Hospitals," accepted in 2023 by the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
This paper develops a model where this is a trade-off between the enforcement of the property rights of different groups. An oligarchic' society, where political power is in the hands of major produce
We use a six-decade long annual country-level panel dataset to document that recessions are more likely to cause political turnover in countries with lower levels of generalized trust. The effect is o
