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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion
Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005
Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118909
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The Two Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Relation between Path Dependent and Politically Implemented Institutional Change
Zweynert, Joachim; Goldschmidt, Nils - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
societal environment. Taking a cultural approach and referring to the newer literature on the transfer of institutions, we try … to improve the understanding of the interrelation between formal and informal institutions. Our central thesis is that … the ?reaction rate? of informal institutions depends on their compatibility with imported formal institutions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957356
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Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Hefeker, Carsten; Busse, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
The paper explores the linkages between political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment inflows. Using … and institutions are employed in the empirical analysis. The results show that government stability, the absence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957402
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Conflicting Patterns of Thought in the Russian Debate on Transition: 1992-2002
Zweynert, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2006
The present study is a continuation of an earlier paper by the same author dealing with the economic debates in the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 (HWWA Discussion Paper 324; Europe-Asia Studies vol. 58, no. 2). After there had been a paradigm shift in Russian economics around 1990, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957406
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FDI, Regulations and Growth
Busse, Matthias; Cardosa, Groizard; Luis, José - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2006
The paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. We argue that countries need a sound business environment in the form of good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957416
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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation
Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957424
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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation
Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320459
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The Two Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Relation between Path Dependent and Politically Implemented Institutional Change
Zweynert, Joachim; Goldschmidt, Nils - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
societal environment. Taking a cultural approach and referring to the newer literature on the transfer of institutions, we try … to improve the understanding of the interrelation between formal and informal institutions. Our central thesis is that … the "reaction rate" of informal institutions depends on their compatibility with imported formal institutions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801324
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Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Busse, Matthias; Hefeker, Carsten - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
The paper explores the linkages between political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment inflows. Using … and institutions are employed in the empirical analysis. The results show that government stability, the absence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801329
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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004
associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125614