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The quality of the institutional environment is a crucial issue in understanding the effective outcome of fiscal decentralization initiatives. However, there has been so far very little work on the subject. In this paper we contribute to fill this gap by considering the municipalities belonging...
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This paper aims to address the empirical question of whether a country's level of manufacturing trade is affected by its financial sector development and to investigate the role of institutions in this relationship. Countries endowed with better-developed financial systems tend to specialize in...
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This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries. We consider institutional heterogeneity to be an explanation for the mixed results of previous empirical studies and we develop several arguments to show that institutional...
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This paper is the first result of a project aiming at understanding the history of bankruptcy law from an empirical economic perspective. By contrast with some proponents of "law and economics" (e.g. La Porta & alii, 1998), we consider that the impact of bankruptcy law on national economic...
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In this paper, we provide an institutional interpretation of Schumpeter's analysis of money, banking and finance. This interpretation is founded on an overall investigation into Schumpeter's writings addressing those issues from different perspectives.In section 1, we discuss the widespread...
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crédit est plafonné par la législation. En parallèle, la croissance de la microfinance dans le monde a montré que les … techniques innovatrices peuvent augmenter la disponibilité de crédit, sans augmenter indûment le risque. Néanmoins, cette … croissance de l'accès au crédit peut ne pas se concrétiser si les taux de crédit restent plafonnés par des lois régissant l …
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real per output growth, excess credit, foreign direct investment (FDI) and the current account balance, in the Central and … credit. The results are economically and statistically significant, and robust. …
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Improving access to capital through credit and public spendings is an important step toward development and poverty … shows that deforestation is positively correlated to access to credit and public spendings, which gives some evidence that … natural capital is a complement to credit and public spendings. …
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This paper examines firms' incentives to commit to a transparent behavior (that precludes bribery) in a competitive … commitment mechanism can eliminate corruption when it is pure extortion. Otherwise, when corruption can affect allocation and the … has the potential to fully eliminate corruption. …
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We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...
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