Christian A. Ruzzier

@JohnRuf6 It seems to me that demanding more credit for coauthors "because they are pretty obviously doing 90% of the work" is akin to demanding more credit for the construction workers that built the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona - implying less credit for Gaudi

Like yes it's great he's providing that feedback and I'm not ragging on him here I'm just saying give the coauthors more credit because they are pretty obviously doing 90% of the work here

Ok I'm not ragging on Sargent here but this is like 7th co-authored textbook in 4 years by an 80 year old man using modern programming languages. Isn't the likely thing going on here that the coauthors are doing most/all of the legwork and Sargent is providing helpful feedback?

@wsosaescudero @EconUdesa Gracias @wsosaescudero !

Che, se incorpora a este ambito el gran @ChiriRuzzier! Un gran valor del @EconUdesa, siganlo antes de que se arrepienta!!!!!!!!

@paulopezvi But part of the story also seems to be that the left in power runs lower quality bureaucracies (with less meritocratic recruitment and less impartial administration), and faces lower checks and balances.

@paulopezvi ideas.repec.org/p/sad/wpaper/1… The effect appears to be linked to extended government intervention in the economy: left-wing governments intervene more through state ownership and—though somewhat imprecisely estimated—through business regulation.

In our new working paper with @paulopezvi, we identify a causal positive effect of electing a left-wing government on a country’s overall corruption – its size is akin to moving from a country like the United Kingdom to a country like Greece, or from Argentina to Cote d’Ivoire.