The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika

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“…During periods of democracy, favoritism appears to be enacted by less visible strategies, for example educational transfers. Similar evidence on the importance of regional favoritism is available for countries as varied as Germany (Baskaran and Fonseca, 2020), Vietnam (Do, 2017), Italy (Carozzi and Repetto, 2016) or across the regions of Europe (Asatryan and Havlik, 2020). On the other hand, Bandyopadhyay and Green (2019) find that connected leaders provide poorer quality roads to their home regions.…”

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“…Political leaders regularly use public resources to favor some regions within their countries over others. Indeed, regional favoritism appears to be a global phenomenon, observable in one form or another in contexts as varied as Europe (Baskaran and Fonseca, 2020;Asatryan and Havlik, 2020), Asia (Do et al, 2016;Blundell and MaCurdy, 1999), or Africa (Burgess et al, 2015). One question that remains largely unexplored, however, is how favored regions make use of any additional resources obtained due to their connection to powerful politicians.…”

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Regional Favoritism and Human Capital Accumulation in Africa

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We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders' birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults who were exposed to favoritism at various points during their life. We find that generic male respondents exposed to regional favoritism during their adolescence have higher educational attainment later in life. This higher human capital accumulated by men leads to more stable employment. For generic women, we observe no beneficial effects of regional favoritism. However, those women who belong to the same ethnic group as their national leader witness an increase in their educational attainment.These results indicate that regular inhabitants rather than only a narrow elite benefit from regional favoritism.

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“…The contributions in this special issue add to broaden and deepen the state of the art in political economy research on the EU in several ways. First, two of the articles (Erce et al 2020;Asatryan and Havlik 2020) study EU institutions that aredespite their economic importancerarely in the focus of academic research. The fact that the ESM will play a decisive role in the current Covid-19 crisis only underscores the importance of studying this institution in more detail.…”

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The political economy of the European Union

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The European Union (EU) currently faces many challenges. The departure of the United Kingdom in early 2020 means that for the first time in its history, it lost rather than gained a member state. Several of its member states still struggle with the long-term consequences of the financial and economic crisis that started back in 2008. The economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis is likely to further strain the economies of the EU's member states. The backlash to globalization that characterizes much of the developed world in the twenty-first century imposes limits on the EU's ability to advance its trade policy agenda. Last but not least, Euroscepticism has taken hold across many EU member states, carried by populist parties that have seen their electoral fortunes improve over the past few years.It is against this background that this special issue advances research on the political economy of the EU. Political economy research investigates the interaction between politics and economics, that is, how political factors influence economic outcomes such as trade or economic growth and how economic outcomes affect politics. Both economists and political scientists contribute to this field of research, with the former mainly focusing on the impact of politics on economic outcomes, and the latter mainly interested in the effect of economic outcomes on politics. Economists, for example, ask: What are the economic gains from European integration and, specifically, from the EU customs union and European Monetary Union? To what extent are EU policies able to foster market efficiency and could some of these policies distort markets? What political economy mechanisms are at work at European institutions? Political scientists studying the political economy of the EU address questions such as: How has the Euro crisis affected the process of European integration? Can the EU use its extensive trade ties with third countries to reach broader foreign policy goals such as the enforcement of labor rights or environmental regulation? To what extent can the distributional effects of European integration explain Euroscepticism?

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The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

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Regional Favoritism and Human Capital Accumulation in Africa

Regional Favoritism and Human Capital Accumulation in Africa

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