کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
984357 934237 2015 27 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The transparency curse: Private information and political freedom
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
لعن شفاف: اطلاعات خصوصی و آزادی سیاسی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


• We analyze political geography and the size of governments in the presence of income inequality.
• Income inequality is neutral on the size of countries but reduces the optimal provision of public goods.
• A politico-economic equilibrium geography is characterized by suboptimal size of nations.
• Inequality can increase the size of countries, reduce public good provision and, at the same time, decrease their degree of openness.

I offer a model of the sustainability of authoritarian rule in which the transparency of productive economic activity enables the ruler to distinguish productive economic activity from preparations for rebellion. The less transparent the productive technology the greater the economic side effects of maintaining authoritarian rule, and the stronger the incentives to liberalize the regime. Using a cross section of countries I provide evidence that, consistently with the theory, democratic government Granger causes internet penetration.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Research in Economics - Volume 69, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 412–438
نویسندگان
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