This dissertation provides an analytical framework to study the political economy of policy reform in the Dominican Republic during the nineties. Based on a country study, I develop two theoretical models that replicate the mechanisms of policy approval in developing countries with weak democracies. The first model considers a pro-reform President who submits a tariff bill to an anti-reform Congress dominated by the opposition party. In between, two opposing lobbies try to get their favored policy approved. Lobbies act as Stackelberg leaders vis a vis a weak President. The behavior of the Congress is determined exogenously while the lobbies act strategically pursuing the approval of the reform bill and indirectly affecting the President\u27...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2011.Cataloged from PDF ...
This thesis focuses on the political economy of development, in particular on the causes and consequ...
This dissertation examines how decentralized institutional structures and organizational forms evolv...
This dissertation provides an analytical framework to study the political economy of policy reform i...
This dissertation contributes to the knowledge on the emergence of political institutions related to...
This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the effect...
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in political economy. In the first chapter, I s...
This dissertation consists of four essays on the Political Economy of Development. The first two ess...
This dissertation consists of three essays. Each one seeks to add in the understanding, in a small w...
The first chapter analizes conditional assistance programs. They generate conflicting relationships ...
This dissertation studies three important questions in international political economy: The long ru...
This thesis deals with political institutions and their effect on democracy and prospects for stabil...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2010.Page 173 blank. Cat...
During the nineties, Colombia experienced a two-fold process of restructuring. First, the political ...
The first half of the dissertation studies how conditional lending by International Financial Instit...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2011.Cataloged from PDF ...
This thesis focuses on the political economy of development, in particular on the causes and consequ...
This dissertation examines how decentralized institutional structures and organizational forms evolv...
This dissertation provides an analytical framework to study the political economy of policy reform i...
This dissertation contributes to the knowledge on the emergence of political institutions related to...
This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the effect...
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in political economy. In the first chapter, I s...
This dissertation consists of four essays on the Political Economy of Development. The first two ess...
This dissertation consists of three essays. Each one seeks to add in the understanding, in a small w...
The first chapter analizes conditional assistance programs. They generate conflicting relationships ...
This dissertation studies three important questions in international political economy: The long ru...
This thesis deals with political institutions and their effect on democracy and prospects for stabil...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2010.Page 173 blank. Cat...
During the nineties, Colombia experienced a two-fold process of restructuring. First, the political ...
The first half of the dissertation studies how conditional lending by International Financial Instit...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2011.Cataloged from PDF ...
This thesis focuses on the political economy of development, in particular on the causes and consequ...
This dissertation examines how decentralized institutional structures and organizational forms evolv...