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Allan Drazen
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 145
Citations - 15081
Allan Drazen is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Fiscal policy. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 144 publications receiving 14726 citations. Previous affiliations of Allan Drazen include University of Chicago & World Bank.
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Threshold Externalities in Economic Development
Costas Azariadis,Allan Drazen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an elaboration of the Diamond model that permits multiple, locally stable stationary states, and this multiplicity is due to increasing social returns to scale in the accumulation of human capital.
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Political economy in macroeconomics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze basic models of sovereign borrowing and its repayment, especially the role of penalties in enforcing repayment, and consider the importance of political versus non-political penalties in the decision of whether to issue debt at home or abroad.
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Why Are Stabilizations Delayed
Alberto Alesina,Allan Drazen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors solve for the expected time of stabilization in a model of "rational" delay and relate it to several political and economic variables, and motivate this approach and its results by comparison to historical and current episodes.
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Political Budget Cycles in New Versus Established Democracies
TL;DR: This paper found a political deficit cycle in a large cross-section of countries, but show that this result is driven by the experience of "new democracies" and that voters punish rather than reward fiscal manipulation.
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Political budget cycles in new versus established democracies
Adi Brender,Allan Drazen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors find a political deficit cycle in a large cross-section of countries, but show that this result is driven by the experience of "new democracies" and that voters punish rather than reward fiscal manipulation.