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DOI10.3386/w19028
来源IDWorking Paper 19028
Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Filipe R. Campante; Quoc-Anh Do; Bernardo V. Guimaraes
发表日期2013-05-09
出版年2013
语种英语
摘要Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by distance from the seat of political power. In established democracies, the threat of insurgencies is not a binding constraint, and the model predicts no correlation between isolated capitals and misgovernance. In contrast, a correlation emerges in equilibrium in the case of autocracies. Causality runs both ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence the elite has less of an incentive to protect its position by isolating the capital city; conversely, a more isolated capital city allows the elite to appropriate a larger share of output, so the costs of better governance for the elite, in terms of rents that would have to be shared, are larger. We show evidence that this pattern holds true robustly in the data. We also show that isolated capitals are associated with less power sharing, a larger income premium enjoyed by capital city inhabitants, and lower levels of military spending by ruling elites, as predicted by the theory.
主题Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w19028
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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