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Stephen Coate
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 112
Citations - 14163
Stephen Coate is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public good & Fiscal policy. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 112 publications receiving 13643 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen Coate include Harvard University & University of Pennsylvania.
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An Economic Model of Representative Democracy
Timothy Besley,Stephen Coate +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop an approach to the study of democratic policy-making where politicians are selected by the people from those citizens who present themselves as candidates for public office.
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Group lending, repayment incentives and social collateral
Timothy Besley,Stephen Coate +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact on repayment rates of lending to groups which are made jointly liable for repayment, and show that successful group members may have an incentive to repay the loans of group members whose projects have yielded insufficient return to make repayment worthwhile.
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Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?
Stephen Coate,Glenn C. Loury +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that even when identifiable groups are equally endowed ex ante, affirmative action can bring about a situation in which employers (correctly) perceive the groups to be unequally productive, ex post.
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Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach
Timothy Besley,Stephen Coate +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a fresh look at the trade-off between centralized and decentralized provision of local public goods and argue that the sharing of the costs of public spending in a centralized system will create a conflict of interest between citizens in different jurisdictions.
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Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements
Stephen Coate,Martin Ravallion +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize the best risk sharing arrangement that can be sustained as a noncooperative equilibrium in a simple repeated game model of two self-interested households facing independent income streams, and identify the conditions under which the divergence between the two is greatest.