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An economic model of representative democracy

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T Besley… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper develops an approach to the study of democratic policy-making where
politicians are selected by the people from those citizens who present themselves as
candidates for public office. The approach has a number of attractive features. First, it is a ...
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Group lending, repayment incentives and social collateral

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T Besley… - Journal of development economics, 1995 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the impact on repayment rates of lending to groups which are
made jointly liable for repayment. This type of scheme, especially in the guise of the
Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, has received increasing attention. We set up and analyze ...
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Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach

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T Besley… - Journal of public economics, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper takes a fresh look at the trade-off between centralized and decentralized
provision of local public goods. It argues that the sharing of the costs of local public
spending in a centralized system will create a conflict of interest between citizens in ...
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Will affirmative-action policies eliminate negative stereotypes?

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S Coate… - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
A key question concerning affirmative action is whether the labor-market gains it brings to
minorities can continue without it becoming a permanent fixture in the labor market. We
argue that this depends on how the policy affects employers' beliefs about the productivity ...
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Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements

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S Coate… - Journal of development Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract Various risk sharing arrangements are common in underdeveloped agrarian
economies where households have no formal means of contract enforcement and little
access to risk markets. Social insurance is still possible through repeated interaction in an ...
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On the form of transfers to special interests

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S Coate… - Journal of Political Economy, 1995 - JSTOR
An important question in political economy concerns the form of transfers to special interests.
The Chicago view is that political competition leads politicians to make such transfers
efficiently. The Virginia position is that lack of information on the part of voters leads ...
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The economics of rotating savings and credit associations

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T Besley, S Coate… - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
This paper analyzes the economic role and performance of a type of financial institution
which is observed worldwide: rotating savings and credit associations (Roscas). Using a
model in which individuals save for an indivisible durable consumption good, we study ...
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Workfare versus welfare: Incentive arguments for work requirements in poverty-alleviation programs

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T Besley… - The American Economic Review, 1992 - JSTOR
Many would agree with Samuel Johnson that" a decent provision for the poor is a true test of
civilization." Yet still there is much debate about what form poverty relief should take.
Particularly controversial is the claim that recipients of relief should be required to work in ...
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Public provision of private goods and the redistribution of income

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T Besley… - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
Most governments devote considerable resources to the provision of private goods such as
health, housing, and education. Moreover, many such schemes are universal in the sense
that everyone is eligible and provision is free. 1 In the United Kingdom, for example, the ...
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Sources of inefficiency in a representative democracy: a dynamic analysis

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T Besley… - American Economic Review, 1998 - JSTOR
This paper studies the efficiency of policy choice in representative democracies. It extends
the citizen-candidate model of democratic policy-making to a dynamic environment.
Equilibrium policy choices are shown to be efficient in the sense that in each period, ...
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Market provision of broadcasting: A welfare analysis

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SP Anderson… - Review of Economic Studies, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a theory of the market provision of broadcasting and uses it to address
the nature of market failure in the industry. Equilibrium advertising levels may be too low or
too high, depending on the nuisance cost to viewers, the substitutability of programmes, ...
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Elected versus appointed regulators: Theory and evidence

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S Coate… - 2000 - nber.org
This paper contrasts direct election with political appointment of regulators. When regulators
are appointed, regulatory policy becomes bundled with other policy issues the appointing
politicians are responsible for. Since regulatory issues are not salient for most voters, ...
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Altruism, the Samaritan's dilemma, and government transfer policy

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S Coate - The American Economic Review, 1995 - JSTOR
This paper shows that altruism provides an efficiency rationale for public provision of
insurance to the poor. The framework is one in which there are rich altruists and risk-averse
poor who face some possibility of loss. The government represents the rich and makes ...
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Policy persistence

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S Coate… - The American economic review, 1999 - JSTOR
Conventional wisdom in political economy warns that once an economic policy is
iniroduced, it is likely to persist. Even when its original rationale is no longer applicable or
has been proven invalid, a policy will prove hard to remove. Empirical support for this ...
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The design of income maintenance programmes

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T Besley… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1995 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive treatment of a basic income maintenance
problem for a group of individuals who differ in their income generating abilities. It stresses
the impact that imperfect information about such abilities has on programme design. The ...
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Lobbying and welfare in a representative democracy

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T Besley… - The Review of Economic Studies, 2001 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper studies the impact of lobbying on political competition and policy
outcomes in a framework which integrates the citizen-candidate model of representative
democracy with the menu-auction model of lobbying. Positive and normative issues are ...
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Understanding welfare stigma: Taxpayer resentment and statistical discrimination

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T Besley… - Journal of Public Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract Welfare stigma is widely regarded to be of central importance in understanding the
impact of welfare programs in their goal of alleviating poverty. It affects both the decision to
take up benefits and the well-being of those who actually do. This paper develops ...
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Pareto-improving campaign finance policy

S Coate - American Economic Review, 2004 - JSTOR
This paper argues that campaign finance policy, in the form of contribution limits and
matching public financing, can be Pareto improving even under very optimistic assumptions
concerning the role of campaign advertising and the rationality of voters. The optimistic ...
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A group rule-utilitarian approach to voter turnout: Theory and evidence

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S Coate… - The American Economic Review, 2004 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This paper explores a group rule–utilitarian approach to understanding voter
turnout, inspired by the theoretical work of John C. Harsanyi (1980) and Timothy J.
Feddersen and Alvaro Sandroni (2002). It develops a model based on this approach and ...
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A dynamic theory of public spending, taxation and debt

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M Battaglini… - 2006 - nber.org
This paper presents a dynamic political economy theory of public spending, taxation and
debt. Policy choices are made by a legislature consisting of representatives elected by
geographically-defined districts. The legislature can raise revenues via a distortionary ...
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Political competition with campaign contributions and informative advertising

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S Coate - 2001 - nber.org
This paper presents a model of political competition with campaign contributions and
informative political advertising. Policy-motivated parties compete by selecting candidates
and interest groups provide contributions to enhance the electoral prospects of like- ...
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Issue unbundling via citizens' initiatives

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T Besley… - 2000 - nber.org
The role of citizens' initiatives figures prominently in contemporary debates on constitutional
change. A basic question is why are initiatives necessary in a representative democracy
where candidates must already compete for the right to control policy? This paper offers ...
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Rotating savings and credit associations, credit markets and efficiency

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T Besley, S Coate… - The Review of Economic …, 1994 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper examines the allocative performance of rotating savings and credit
associations (roscas), a financial institution which is observed world-wide. We develop a
model in which individuals save for an indivisible good and study roscas which distribute ...
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Market provision of public goods: the case of broadcasting

SP Anderson… - 2000 - nber.org
This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television
broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting
efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers ...
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Inefficiency in legislative policy-making: A dynamic analysis

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M Battaglini… - 2005 - nber.org
ABSTRACT This paper develops an infinite horizon model of public spending and taxation
in which policy decisions are determined by legislative bargaining. The policy space
incorporates both productive and distributive public spending and distortionary taxation. ...
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Labor market discrimination, imperfect information and self employment

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S Coate… - Oxford Economic Papers, 1992 - JSTOR
WHILE it is well recognized that labor market discrimination will affect the decisions of those
discriminated against to enter self employment, few existing studies of discrimination have
carefully examined the implications of this linkage. The literature has simply noted two ...
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Antidiscrimination enforcement and the problem of patronization

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S Coate… - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
A government determined to prohibit race or sex discrimination in employment faces a
difficult enforcement problem. With unlimited information a regulator might, by observing the
outcome of every employment decision made by a firm, determine whether that firm is ...
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Cash versus direct food relief

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S Coate - Journal of Development Economics, 1989 - Elsevier
Abstract The usual method of providing relief to a famine region is to import food and
distribute it to the needy (direct food relief). If there are markets for food in the region,
however, a relief agency could just as easily distribute money to the needy and let them ...
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The performance of pivotal-voter models in small-scale elections: Evidence from Texas liquor referenda

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S Coate, M Conlin… - Journal of Public Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper explores the ability of pivotal-voter models to explain voter behavior in small-
scale elections using data from Texas liquor referenda. The findings provide little support for
the view that pivotal-voter models are a reasonable theory for understanding small-scale ...
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Socially optimal districting: a theoretical and empirical exploration

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S Coate… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper investigates the problem of optimal districting in the context of a simple
model of legislative elections. In the model, districting matters because it determines the seat-
vote curve, which describes the relationship between seats and votes. The paper first ...
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Lobbying and welfare in a representative democracy

T Besley… - 1997 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
This paper studies the impact of lobbying on political competition and policy outcomes in a
framework which integrates the citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with
the menu-auction model of lobbying. Positive and normative issues are analysed. On the ...
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2 Policy conditionality

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S Coate… - Globalization and the nation state: the impact …, 2006 - books.google.com
The World Bank carries out extensive policy conditionality: developing country policy makers
agree to a program of economic policy reform in exchange for grants and concessionary
finance. There are two ways in which policy conditionality might have a beneficial impact. ...
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Pareto efficient income taxation with stochastic abilities

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M Battaglini… - Journal of Public Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper studies Pareto efficient income taxation in an economy with finitely-lived
individuals whose income generating abilities evolve according to a two-state Markov
process. The study yields three main results. First, when individuals are risk neutral, in any ...
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An efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes

S Coate - 1999 - nber.org
This paper describes an efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes. Rather
than comparing the utility allocations that arise before and after a policy change is
introduced, this approach evaluates a policy change by comparing it with other possible ...
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On the public choice critique of welfare economics

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T Besley… - Public choice, 2003 - Springer
The public choice literature urges the welfare economist toanticipate how political forces will
shape the levels of newpolicy instruments when government intervenes in a new way. This
paper argues that the welfare economist should alsorecognize that new interventions may ...
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Fiscal policy over the real business cycle: a positive theory

M Battaglini… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper presents a political economy theory of the behavior of fiscal policy over the
business cycle. The theory predicts that, in both booms and recessions, fiscal policies are
set so that the marginal cost of public funds obeys a submartingale. In the short run, fiscal ...
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Pecuniary redistribution through in-kind programs

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S Coate, S Johnson… - Journal of Public Economics, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract The pecuniary effects of cash and in-kind programs differ. A program that builds
housing for the poor, for example, is likely to result in a lower price of existing low-income
housing than would an equally costly cash transfer program. Low-income renters in ...
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[CITATION] Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal risk-sharing arrangements

S Coate… - Papers, 1989 - ideas.repec.org
No abstract is available for this item. ... To our knowledge, this item is not available for
download. To find whether it is available, there are three options: 1. Check below under "Related
research" whether another version of this item is available online. 2. Check on the ...
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Government form and public spending: Theory and evidence from US municipalities

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S Coate… - 2009 - nber.org
There are two main forms of government in US cities: council-manager and mayor-council.
This paper develops a theory of fiscal policy determination under these two forms. The
theory predicts that expected public spending will be lower under mayor-council, but that ...
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Pareto Efficient Income Taxation with Stochastic Abilities

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M Battaglini… - 2003 - nber.org
This paper studies Pareto efficient income taxation in an economy with infinitely-lived
individuals whose income generating abilities evolve according to a two-state Markov
process. The study yields two main results. First, when individuals are risk neutral, the ...
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On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution

M Azzimonti, M Battaglini… - MPRA Paper, 2010 - econpapers.repec.org
This paper uses the political economy model of Battaglini and Coate (2008) to analyze the
impact of a balanced budget rule that requires that legislators do not run deficits. It considers
both a strict rule which cannot be circumvented and a rule that can be overridden by a ...
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Voter turnout: Theory and evidence from Texas liquor referenda

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S Coate… - 2002 - nber.org
This paper uses data from Texas liquor referenda to explore a new approach to
understanding voter turnout, inspired by the theoretical work of Harsanyi (1980) and
Feddersen and Sandroni (2001). It presents a model based on this approach and ...
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[CITATION] Understanding the workhouse test: Information and poor relief in nineteenth-century England

T Besley, S Coate, T Guinnane, EG Center… - 1993 - Economic Growth Center
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Public utility pricing and capacity choice under risk: A rational expectations approach

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S Coate… - Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1989 - Springer
Over the last two decades there has developed an extensive literature on the theory of
public enterprise pricing and capacity choice under uncertainty. A major concern has been
the analysis of the rationing of consumers in states in which demand exceeds available ...
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[PDF] A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt

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M Battaglini… - American Economic Review, …, 2007 - economics.cornell.edu
Abstract This paper presents a dynamic political economy theory of public spending,
taxation and debt. Policy choices are made by a legislature consisting of representatives
elected by geographically-defined districts. The legislature can raise revenues via a ...
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[CITATION] Workfare vs welfare: incentive arguments for work requirements in poverty alleviation programs

T Besley… - 1989 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
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[CITATION] Power-hungry candidates, policy favors, and pareto improving campaign contribution limits

S Coate - Cornell University Typescript, 2002
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[CITATION] Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: A political economy analysis

T Berley… - NBER Working Paper, 1999
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[CITATION] Fiscal Policy over the real business cycle: A positive theory

L Barseghyan, M Battaglini… - 2010 - mimeo
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Incentives, Information, and Welfare: England's New Poor Law and the Workhouse Test

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T Besley, S Coate… - History matters: essays on …, 2003 - books.google.com
In 1834 England adopted a set of reforms to its poor-relief system that sought to overturn a
system dating back to the time of Elizabeth I. Local parishes under the old system granted
outdoor relief to a wide class of persons, including able-bodied workers, and did so in ...
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[PDF] Non0mamoritarian Policy Rutcomes and the Role of Citizens* Initiatives

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T Besley… - 2000 - idei.fr
Abstract This paper develops a simple multi0dimensional model of electoral competition.
The model provides three explanations for why pol0 icy outcomes on certain issues may
diverge from majority preferences. Each explanation relies on the fact that policy0makers ...
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[CITATION] Elected versus appointed regulators: Theory and evidence, typescript

T Besley… - 2000
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[CITATION] Distributive policy making as a source of inefficiency in representative democracies

S Coate… - 1997 - University of Pennsylvania
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The Public Critique of Welfare Economics: An Exploration

T Besley… - 1999 - nber.org
The welfare economic method for analyzing the case for government intervention is often
criticized for ignoring the political determination of policies. While many economists accept
the thrust of this critique, exactly when and how political determination interferes with a ...
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[BOOK] On the Allocative Performance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations

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T Besley, S Coate… - 1992 - princeton.edu
Abstract This paper examines the allocative performance of rotating savings and credit
associations (roscas), a financial institution which is observed world-wide. We develop a
model in which individuals save for an indivisible good and study roscas which distribute ...
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[CITATION] The economics of ROSCAs

T Besley, S Coate… - Center for International Studies, discussion Paper, 1990
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Analyzing the case for government intervention in a representative democracy

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T Besley… - LSE STICERD Research Paper No. TE335, 1997 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The welfare economic method for analyzing the case for government intervention is
often criticised for ignoring the political determination of policies. The standard method of
accounting for this critique studies the case for intervention under the constraint that the ...
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Socially optimal districting

S Coate… - 2005 - nber.org
This paper provides a welfare economic analysis of the problem of districting. In the context
of a simple micro-founded model intended to capture the salient features of US politics, it
studies how a social planner should allocate citizens of different ideologies across districts ...
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[CITATION] Pareto Efficient Taxation with Stochastic Abilities

M Battaglini… - Cornell and Princeton mimeo, 2005
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Policy Persistence

S Coate… - CARESS Working Papres, 1995 - ideas.repec.org
Policy persistence refers to the tendency of the political process to maintain policies once
they have been introduced. This paper develops a theory of policy persistence based on the
idea that policies create incentives for beneficiaries to take actions which increase their ...
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[CITATION] Affirmative Action as a Remedy for Statistical Discrimination

S Coate… - unpublished, Harvard University, 1991
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[CITATION] On the desirability of campaign contribution limits

S Coate - 2002 - mimeo, Cornell University
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[CITATION] Andrea Moro,(2005).“The Performance of the Pivotal-Voter Model in Small-Scale Elections: Evidence from Texas Liquor Referenda,”

S Coate… - Journal of Public Economics
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[CITATION] Understanding Welfare Stigma: Resentment and Statistical Discrimination

T Besley… - Manuscript. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton Univ, 1990
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[CITATION] mFiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory. nMimeo

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[PDF] SHOULD FOOD AID BE GIVEN AWAY OR SOLD DURING A EAMlNE?

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S Coate - 1987 - execed.kellogg.northwestern.edu
3 relatively unpalatable foods. A more radical alternative has been proposed by Seaman
and Holt [12]. They suggest selling food aid rather than giving it away.“The idea is that if
individuals are required to pay for food aid they will be less likely to demand it unless they ...
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[CITATION] Will A¢ rmative Action Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?

S Coate… - American Economic Review, 1993
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[CITATION] St. Johnson, and R. Zeckhauser (1994)“Pecuniary Redistribution through In-Kind Transfers”

S Coate - Journal of Public Economics
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[CITATION] Centralized vs. decentralized provision of local public good: a political economy analysis

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[CITATION] Workfare vs

T Besley… - Welfare: Incentive Arguments for work Requirements in, 1992
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[CITATION] Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting

S Coate… - Review of Economic Studies, 2003
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Socially Optimal Districting: An Empirical Investigation

S Coate… - 2006 - nber.org
This paper provides an empirical exploration of the potential gains from socially optimal
districting. As emphasized in the political science literature, districting matters because it
determines the seat-vote curve, which relates the fraction of seats parties obtain to their ...
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Power-hungry Candidates, Policy Favors, and Pareto Improving Campaign Finance Policy

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S Coate - 2003 - nber.org
This paper argues that campaign finance policy, in the form of contribution limits and
matching public financing, can be Pareto improving even under the most optimistic
assumptions concerning the role of campaign advertising and the rationality of voters. The ...
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[CITATION] Socially Optimal Districting: a Theoretical and Empirical Exploration. Forthcoming

S Coate… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics
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[CITATION] Globalization and the Nation State: The Impact of the IMF and World Bank

ST Coate, SE Morris, G Ranis, J Vreeland… - 2006 - Routledge
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[CITATION] Robin-Hooding Rents: Exploiting the Pecuniary Effects of In-Kind Programs

S Coate, S Johnson… - 1992 - mimeo, March 1992, Harvard …
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[CITATION] On the Form of Transfers to Special Interests, 103 J

S Coate… - POL. ECON, 1995
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[CITATION] Universal Public Provision of Private Goods and the Redistribution of Income

TJ Besley… - typescript Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton …, 1989
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[CITATION] Unbundling Via Citizen's Initiatives

T Besley… - Manuscript, 2002
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[CITATION] WOn the Allocation of Rotating Saving and Credit Associations. & Research Program in Development Studies at Princeton University Discussion Paper

TJ Besley, S Coate… - 1992
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[CITATION] Sources of inefficiency in a representative democracy: A dynamic analysis

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B Timothy… - American Economic Review, 1998
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[CITATION] The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations"(1993)

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T Besley, S Coate… - Am. Econ. Rev., 1990
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[CITATION] VA Dynamic Theory of Spending, Taxation, and Debt

M Battaglini… - V forthcoming American Economic Review, 2008
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[CITATION] An Economic Model of Representative Democracy

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[CITATION] mOn the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution. nMimeo

A Rezno, MB Marina… - 2008
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[CITATION] Power-hungry Candidates

S Coate - Policy Favors, 2003
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[CITATION] Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: A Political Economy Analysis, erscheint in: Journal of Public Economics

T Besley… - 2003
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[CITATION] mA Group $ Utilitarian Approach to Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence, nmimeo

S Coate… - Cornell University, 2004
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The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy

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M Battaglini… - Journal of the European Economic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We describe a theory of the collective choice of fiscal policy in dynamic economies
that are subject to aggregate shocks. The theory incorporates realistically complex policy
spaces, rational forward-looking agents, and a rich political decision process. We argue ...
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[CITATION] Incentives, Information, and Welfare: England's New poor-law and the Workhouse

T Besley, S Coate… - manuscript Yale University, 1992
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[CITATION] mWill Affi rmative Action Eliminate Negative Stereotypes? nAmerican Economic Review

S Coate… - 1993 - Vol
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Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency: A Dynamic Analysis

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S Coate - 2011 - nber.org
This paper revisits the classic argument that a system of local governments financing public
service provision via property taxes will produce an efficient allocation of both housing and
services if communities can implement zoning ordinances. The novel feature of the ...
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[CITATION] Political contributions with campaign contributions and informative advertising

S Coate - NBER Working Paper, 2002
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[CITATION] Political Competition with Campaign Contributions and Informative Advertizing” typescript

S Coate - 2001
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