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Timothy Besley
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 370
Citations - 48794
Timothy Besley is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Government. The author has an hindex of 103, co-authored 368 publications receiving 45988 citations. Previous affiliations of Timothy Besley include Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & World Bank.
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Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the link between property rights and investment incentives was examined, and three theoretical arguments based on security of tenure, using land as collateral and obtaining gains from trade were developed.
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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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The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India
Timothy Besley,Robin Burgess +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model based on the solution of political agency problems to find the determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens. But the model was not tested on panel data from India and the results showed that public food distribution and calamity relief expenditure are greater, controlling for shocks.
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Capital in the 21st Century
Andrew Haldane,Rachana Shanbhogue,Orazio Attanasio,Timothy Besley,Timothy Besley,Timothy Besley,Peter H. Lindert,Peter H. Lindert,Thomas Piketty,Jaume Ventura +9 more
TL;DR: A discussion forum based around Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the twenty-first century, with a number of economists from academia, public sector bodies and private sector institutions was held at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Bank of England.
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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.