Gustavo Fajardo from the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) presented his paper “Hierarchy, Coups and the Political Preferences of Army Officers” at the University of Navarra in a seminar organized by the NCID.
The project attempts to analyse the role of intra-military hierarchy in coups and how the army plays an important role in the political field in countries with weak institutions.
“My results underline the importance of internal dynamics within the Army. If support for coups is drawn along hierarchical lines...
Yu-Hsiang Lei from London School of Economics gave a seminar presenting his research project titled: “Can Governments Harvest Connections with Firms? Evidence from China”.
His research analyzes the relationship between the local governments and firms in China. Yu-Hsiang Lei focuses on a tax-sharing reform between central and local governments in China in 2011. “Local governments were incentivized to raise tax revenue in a short period of time”, explained Lei, which prompted local governments to turn to firms for assi...
Marie Boltz, Ph.D from the Paris School of Economics and current Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Namur, presented at the NCID her paper “Income Hiding and Informal Redistribution: A Lab-in-the-field Experiment in Senegal”, which "uniquely combines a lab-in-the field and a small scale randomized controlled trial”, explained Marie Boltz.
The paper aims to analyze the hidden cost of informal redistribution in economies where people heavily rely on their social networks an...