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A Framework for Cross-Country Comparisons of Public Infrastructure Constraints on Firm Growth
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
public input character of physical infrastructure and institutions, and uses an O-ring production function to model the … priorities vary widely among countries and suggest a degree of caution about donor policies tying development assistance to … improvements are likely to be modest relative to the scale of impact implied by aggregate-level studies of the role of institutions …
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries About the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers’ answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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The impact of business regulatory reforms on economic growth
Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 26 (2012) 3, pp. 285-307
issues associated with other datasets on changes in economic institutions. The results provide a robust support for the claim …
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Hispaniola and its Economic Divergence
Ricciuti, Roberto; Zardo, Elena - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2013) 3
Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which are respectively on the left and right side of the island of Hispaniola, represent an interesting case of economic divergence: whereas in colonial times Haiti was richer than the current Dominican Republic, it is now one of the poorest countries in the...
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The Problem of Southern Italy: From the Lack of Capital to Illegal Intermediation
Monte, Alfredo Del - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 2
were recommended. In more recent years the main focus has been on the idea that institutions matter and that aid policy to … institutions. The four articles written by Barucci from 1970 to 2007 show how economic thought on the Mezzogiorno evolved. The …
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Black Man’s Burden: Measured Philanthropy in the British Empire, 1880-1913
Accominotti, Olivier; Flandreau, Marc; Rezzik, Riad; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
colonial rule was to create financial incentives to adopt development policies that encouraged government spending. …
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial … we document a positive cross-sectional association between national institutions and regional economic development … regional development. The positive within country effect of pre-colonial institutions also obtains in regions of partitioned …
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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that … correlation between formal national institutions and economic development has to be carefully interpreted. … institutions. Using both a matching-type and a regression discontinuity approach we show that differences in countrywide …
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