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Do Democracies Grow Faster? Revisiting the Institutions and Economic Performance Debate

Lim, Jamus Jerome; Decker, Jessica Henson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

both political-economic institutions as well as the primarily political institution of democratic development. Using both … weakly positive relationship. Political economic institutions, however, remain positive and significant determinants of …

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INSTITUTIONS AND ENTRY: A CROSS-REGIONAL ANALYSIS IN RUSSIA

Bruno, Randolph; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on novel databases and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional...

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Democracy or videocracy? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the Italian political arena

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...

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Institutional interactions and economic growth: The joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital

Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

distinguishing between institutional veto players (political institutions) and partisan veto players (fractionalization among …

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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …

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Institutions and Economic Change: The Experience of Baja California

Ramirez-Urquidy, Martin; Mungaray, Ana Barbara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper analyzes the economic changes and the changes in some welfare indicators associated to the political alternation and to a changing institutional framework in the Mexican state of Baja California. The paper uses the institutional approach to economic development under the hypothesis...

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Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to addresses this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends - in a subtle way - on the details of democratic...

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How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru

McMillan, John; Zoido, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret-police chief Montesinos systematically …

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Democracy and Foreign Education

Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Do foreign educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home country? Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals foster democracy in their home countries. Using a...

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Accounting for Unobserved Country Heterogeneity in Happiness Research: Country Fixed Effects versus Region Fixed Effects

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or …

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