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We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical … institutional framework that shows how institutions affect efficiency, we apply this framework to the real world. An empirical … analysis of institutions affecting training markets will enable us to determine the institutional efficiency of these markets …
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institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment …. Consequently, when institutions of FSU and sub-Saharan countries develop to the point they become attractive to traders and … commit credibly to increasing capacities of their state institutions with a view to supporting property-based rule of law and …
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We propose a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of regulatory activity based on the distinctions among boundary, conduct, and attribute regulation. The standard we use to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of regulations creating boundaries, regulating conduct, and defining...
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\ in the determination of productivity in early stages of development to the domination of institutional factors in mature … associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
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resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to …The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and … institutions? What specific aspects of institutions are responsible for economic performance? This paper suggests that two broad …
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The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance has uncovered important … questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed … differences in performance across parts of one economy sharing similar institutions? This paper suggests that two broad aspects of …
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Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict … performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at … superstructural effects of institutions on aggregate and average income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs). It finds …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
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The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...
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culture, institutions and technology matter in the development of IPR protection policy even more than traditional variables …
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