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09/11/13

Assessing Economic Liberalization Episodes: A Synthetic Control Approach

We use transparent statistical methodology for data driven case studies to investigate the impact of economic liberalization on real GDP per capita in a worldwide sample of countries.

Joint with Andrea Stella, Guido Tabellini, and Ugo Troiano

09/11/13

Social Capital and Political Accountability

We investigate a channel through which social capital may improve economic wellbeing and the functioning of institutions: political accountability.

Joint with Andrea Stella, Guido Tabellini, and Ugo Troiano

09/11/13

The Political Resource Curse

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data.

Joint with Fernanda Brollo, Roberto Perotti, and Guido Tabellini

22/09/13

Persuasive communication: Men and women react differently

The perceived tone of a product or political advertisement affects public response – even holding constant the content of the message. This column provides evidence that men and women react differently to positive and negative tones in electoral advertisements. Negative advertising increases voter turnout among men but not women; positive …

Tommaso Nannicini, Vincenzo Galasso

#communication #politics

09/11/12

Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil

This article uses a regression discontinuity design in close electoral races to disclose purely political reasons in the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state.

Joint with Fernanda Brollo

09/11/11

Competing on Good Politicians

We introduce a theoretical model where ideological parties select and allocate high-valence (experts) and low-valence (party loyalists) candidates into electoral districts.

Joint with Vincenzo Galasso

09/01/11

Economies in Transition: How Important Is Trade Openness for Growth?

We investigate the effect of trade openness on economic growth in transition countries using a transparent statistical methodology that leads to data-driven case studies.

Joint with Andreas Billmeier

09/11/10

Moonlighting Politicians

When the political and market sectors are not mutually exclusive, a trade-off arises between the quality of elected officials and the time they devote to political life.

Joint with Stefano Gagliarducci and Paolo Naticchioni

04/10/09

Trade Openness and Growth: Pursuing Empirical Glasnost

Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on cross-country analysis—which lacks transparency—or case studies—which lack statistical rigor.

Joint with Andreas Billmeier

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