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The inefficiency of firm-augmenting public input vs. The inapplicability of provision rules

Colombier, Carsten - EconWPA - 2004

This paper contributes to the debate about the appropriate efficiency rule for the provision of a firm-augmenting public input. This debate is caused by the dissatisfaction of Kaizuka-rule, i.e. a Samuelson-type condition for public inputs, in the long run. Therefore the applicability of...

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Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Leautier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2004

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of determinants of performance of cities. We construct a preliminary worldwide database for cities, containing variables and indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city...

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Il concetto di capitale sociale. Una rassegna della letteratura economica, sociologica e politologica

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004

Con questo articolo si intende offrire una rassegna critica del dibattito in corso da più di un decennio sul concetto di capitale sociale. Gli studi considerati sono suddivisi in base all’aspetto della struttura sociale cui di volta in volta viene accordata maggiore enfasi. La rassegna si...

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA

Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...

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Inequality, Market Imperfections, and Collective Action Problems

Bardhan, Pranab; Ghatak, Maitreesh - EconWPA - 2000

In this paper we analyze the effects of wealth inequality on the provision of public goods and management of common-property resources (CPR) when there are market imperfections in inputs that are complementary in production to the collective good. We show that for public goods inequality impedes...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: An Obvious Conjunction?

DEJARDIN, Marcus - EconWPA - 2001

This paper consists of an introductory survey of two fundamental questions regarding the link between entrepreneurship and economic growth. The first one deals with the endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. In particular, we suggest that, while more entrepreneurship could...

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REDEFINED PRODUCTIVITY & SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORIENTED MANAGEMENT DECISIONS.

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2004

In the Domain of Development Economics, Productivity is represented by Output to Input Ratio & Management Decisions related to the Inputs and Outputs ensures to keep this ratio in a favourable condition. When this is integrated with a Broad-Scope of Socio-Economic Development (SED). Qualitative...

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Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Transition Countries: Evidence from Dynamic Heterogeneous Panel Models

Kim, Byung-Yeon; Korhonen, Iikka - EconWPA - 2002

We use a dynamic heterogeneous panel model to estimate real equilibrium exchange rates for advanced transition countries. Our method is based on out-of-sample estimations from middle-income and high-income countries, and we use a pooled mean group estimator. We find that exchange rates have...

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The Productivity Gap between East and West Europe: What Role for Sectoral Structures during Integration?

Stephan, Johannes - EconWPA - 2004

Analysis into the sources of lower levels of national productivities between Central East European Economies and the European Union is scarce and lacks comparability. These sources are assessed by analysing the role played by sectoral structures. After providing a brief overview over comparative...

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China's Reform Period Economic Growth: Why Angus Maddison Got It Wrong and What That Means

Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005

China's economic growth statistics of the late 1990s have repeatedly been questioned. Angus Maddison in a 1998 OECD … study goes further in that he revised China's official average annual real growth rate for the first seventeen years of … for China. This paper examines Angus Maddison's revisions to official data and finds them invalid. Angus Maddison's growth …

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