The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy
- P. Keefer, D. Stasavage
- EconomicsAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 August 2003
Governments unable to make credible promises hinder economic development and effective policymaking. Scholars have focused considerable attention on checks and balances and the delegation of…
Democracy and education spending in Africa
- D. Stasavage
- Political Science
- 1 April 2005
While it is widely believed that electoral competition influences public spending decisions, there has been relatively little effort to examine how recent democratization in the developing world has…
Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance
- Kenneth Scheve, D. Stasavage
- Economics
- 2 July 2006
In this paper we argue that religion and welfare state spending are substitute mechanisms that insure individuals against adverse life events. As a result, individuals who are religious are predicted…
When Distance Mattered: Geographic Scale and the Development of European Representative Assemblies
- D. Stasavage
- EconomicsAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 November 2010
Scholars investigating European state development have long placed a heavy emphasis on the role played by representative institutions. The presence of an active representative assembly, it is argued,…
Does it Pay to Be Transparent? International Evidence from Central Bank Forecasts
- G. Chortareas, D. Stasavage, Gabriel Sterne
- Economics
- 1 November 2001
Is central bank transparency associated with variation in macroeconomic outcomes? Cross-country data covering 87 countries is used to construct an index for transparency based upon the detail in…
Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve
- Ellen E. Meade, D. Stasavage
- Economics
- 27 March 2008
When central banks are transparent about their decision making, there may be clear benefits in terms of credibility, policy effectiveness, and improved democratic accountability. While recent…
Open-Door or Closed-Door? Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining
- D. Stasavage
- EconomicsInternational Organization
- 1 October 2004
In recent years there have been numerous calls for making the operations of international organizations more “transparent.” One element in these demands involves the idea that international…
Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation
- Kenneth Scheve, D. Stasavage
- EconomicsAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 February 2012
In this article we use an original data set to provide the first empirical analysis of the political economy of inherited wealth taxation that covers a significant number of countries and a long time…
The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation
- Kenneth Scheve, D. Stasavage
- EconomicsInternational Organization
- 1 October 2010
Abstract The dominant narrative of the politics of redistribution in political science and economics highlights the signature role of the rise of electoral democracy and the development of political…
Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run
- Kenneth Scheve, D. Stasavage
- Economics
- 1 August 2007
It has been widely suggested by political scientists and economists, based on empirical evidence for the period since 1970, that the institution of centralized wage bargaining and the presence of a…
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