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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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?...

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Strengthening capacity for resilient food systems: Approaches and research gaps:

Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

In the wake of the food and financial crises of 2007â€“2008 and 2011, building resilient food systems to achieve food security for all has become one of the top goals of the development agenda.

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Capacity development for resilient food systems: Issues, approaches, and knowledge gaps:

Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

categorized into three subsystems: a policy system; markets, trade, and institutions; and a production system. Within each of …

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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

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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya

Shiferaw, Bekele; Obare, Gideon; Muricho, Geoffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

complementary institutions and coordination mechanisms to exploit scale economies. The effectiveness of PMGs was determined by the …

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