dc.contributor.author | Stroup, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Zissimos, B | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-11T10:35:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-03-29 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country's institutions, which in turn influences its economic efficiency. The environment we explore is one in which a country's lower classes may revolt and appropriate wealth owned by a ruling elite. The elite can avert revolution by incentivizing a potentially productive middle class to sink their human capital into a relatively unproductive bureaucracy. Thus the bureaucracy serves as an institution through which the elite can credibly commit to make transfers to the rest of society, but in the process this reduces economic efficiency. Trade integration alters the relative value of the elite's wealth. This alters the lower classes’ incentive to revolt on the one hand and the elite's incentive to subsidize participation in the inefficient bureaucracy on the other. Therefore, the interaction between a country's comparative advantage and an inefficient economic institution determines whether trade integration increases or reduces economic efficiency. The econometric findings support the model's main prediction. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 21 (3), pp. 425 - 450 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/rode.12315 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/36370 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 29 March 2019 in compliance with publisher policy | |
dc.rights | © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd | en_GB |
dc.title | Pampered Bureaucracy, Political Stability and Trade Integration (journal article) | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-11T10:35:00Z | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1467-9361 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Review of Development Economics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2016-12-30 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2017-03-29 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-03-11T10:30:38Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-03-11T10:35:03Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |