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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical contributions that use cross country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a brief review of the theoretical literature and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822371
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Crises, What Crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763747
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667865
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War and Endogenous Democracy
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822286
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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
that a jus sanguinis origin is a factor of resistance to change, that a high degree of democracy promotes the adoption of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763607
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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739947
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A Theory of Military Dictatorships
Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
more important consequence of the presence of a strong military is that once transition to democracy takes place, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761843
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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762361
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839291
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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'
Barnett, Andy; Yandle, Bruce; Naufal, George S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959531