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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment and shifts in political power. Specifically, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533381
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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade : A Pilot Study
Bate, Roger - 2014
tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries …-existent, under-developed or emerging regulatory oversight, notably Africa. This paper assesses the quality of 1470 antibiotic and … distribution of these substandard products is not random: they are more likely to be found as unregistered products in Africa than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458199
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Morck, Randall K. - 2005
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467625
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457998
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The Runner-Up Effect
Anagol, Santosh - 2014
Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458405
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394862
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394918
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471281
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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
Hulten, Charles R. - 1999
We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471341
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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry
Arora, Ashish - 1999
A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471530