Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy

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Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and political economy. All chapters are self-contained research articles and can be read independently. However, the chapters are mutually related and contribute to the discussion on how economic inequality, institutions, and economic and infrastructure policies can influence welfare and political stability. Chapter 2 examines how relative economic deprivation influences the support for radical parties. Chapter 3 examines how trade openness influences income inequality. Chapter 4 uses a case study to discuss how infrastructure policies can affect regional economic development. Chapters 5 and 6 contribute to the debate on the effect of political and fiscal institutions on budgeting, accountability, and government efficiency. Empirical identification strategies, endogeneity problems, and remaining caveats regarding causal inferences are discussed in detail in all chapters of this dissertation. The study employs state-of-the-art empirical techniques to infer causal effects including instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, event study, and synthetic control estimations. The addendum contains extended abstracts of three further research projects during the Ph.D. phase of Florian Dorn: (I) Globalization, government ideology, and top income shares: Evidence from OECD countries; (II) Political institutions and health expenditure; (III) The common interest of health and the economy: Evidence from Covid-19 containment policies. These papers are also related to the empirics on public economics and political economy and contribute well to his overall research agenda.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-95942-104-1
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung ; No. 97

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation ; Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General ; National Government Expenditures and Health ; State and Local Budget and Expenditures ; Public Economics: Miscellaneous Issues: General ; Public Administration; Public Sector Accounting and Audits ; International Economic Order and Integration ; Economic Impacts of Globalization: General ; Economic Impacts of Globalization: Macroeconomic Impacts ; Health and Economic Development ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Air Transportation ; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure ; Comparative Economic Systems: General ; Tourism: Policy
• Thema: Public economics ; political economy ; public finance ; applied econometrics ; economic deprivation ; income inequality ; top income shares ; political polarization ; radical voting ; trade openness ; globalization ; development ; development levels ; transition economies ; economic policy ; infrastructure ; transportation infrastructure ; infrastructure policy ; airports ; tourism ; regional development ; regional studies ; Germany ; municipalitie ; local government ; institutions ; fiscalrules ; public accounting ; budget transparency ; sustainability ; government efficiency ; accountability ; electoral cycles ; elections ; public goods ; public services ; health expenditure ; health protection ; government ideology ; partisan theory ; optimal policy ; integrated simulations ; real-time analysis ; stochastic frontier analysis(sfa) ; data envelopment analysis (dea) ; panel data ; econometrics ; ordinary least squares (OLS) ; instrumental variable (IV) ; synthetic control method ; difference-in-differences ; event study

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dorn, Florian
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München
• (wo): München
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.5282/edoc.29206
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/251428
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-292067
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ