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When do populations polarize? An explanation
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2018)
Numerous experiments demonstrate attitude polarization. For instance, Lord, Ross & Lepper presented subjects with the same mixed evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty. Both believers and skeptics of its ...
Meet the oligarchs: business legitimacy, state capacity and taxation
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2016)
We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in government, on policy preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two treatments ...
Fairness and redistribution, a comment
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2013)
We provide an example that shows that in the Alesina and Angeletos (2005) model one can obtain multiplicity even if luck plays no role inthe economy. Thus, it is not critical that the noise to signal ratio beincreasing in ...
Belief Elicitation When More Than Money Matters: Controlling for “Control”
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, 2020)