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Institutional Change and Product Composition: Does the Initial Quality of Institutions Matter?

Moenius, Johannes; Berkowitz, Daniel - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

We argue that the quality of institutions that enforce contracts and protect property rights influences the costs of producing high-value added (complex) versus low-value added (simple) products. Since data is hardly available for domestic transactions, we generate predictions about the...

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Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance

Licht, Amir N.; Goldschmidt, Chanan; Schwartz, Shalom H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for over 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the...

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Original Sin, Good Works, and Property Rights in Russia: Evidence From a Survey Experiment

Frye, Timothy - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

Are property rights obtained through legally dubious means forever tainted with original sin or can rightholders make their ill-gotten gains legitimate by doing good works?2 This is a critical question for developing countries (and Russia in particular) where privatization is often opaque and...

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IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Tamazian, Artur - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

This purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of institutional quality on human rights abuses in transition economies. We make use of an alternative empirical approach for evaluation of institutional system’s development in transition economies developed by Chousa et al. (2005)....

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EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MILITARY SPENDING & HUMAN RIGHTS PERFORMANCE IN SOUTH ASIA

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Pathmalal, K K Shakya … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

The relationship between military spending and human rights is one of the most prominent issues in political economy. Yet, the linkage between the two is empirically underdeveloped. Seeking to fulfill this existing gap in the literature, we examine the effects of militarization on human rights...

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A Refinancing Model of Decentralization with Empirical Evidence from China

Park, Albert; Shen, Minggao - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

information in response to market signals. In China, however, banks centralized lending authority following financial reforms in …

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Entrepreneurs' Access to Private Equity in China: The Role of Social Capital

Batjargal, Bat; Liu, Mannie M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

investors. The context of the study is People's Republic of China. The empirical data is composed of 158 venture capital …

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Comparative Advantages in U. S. Bilateral Services Trade with China and India

Liu, Lirong; Nath, Hiranya K.; Tochkov, Kiril - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2015

comparative advantage (CA) in U.S. services trade with China and India from 1992 to 2010. The results indicate that the U.S. has a … recently China, gained a CA in modern services, such as computer and information services during the period considered in this … losing its initial dominance. In contrast, the U.S. CA or CDA vis-à-vis China exhibits high levels of persistence over time …

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Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms: An Application to China’s Township-Village Enterprises.

Che, Jihua - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

empirical observations concerning local government-owned firms, i.e., township-village enterprises, during China’s transition to …

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Incentives, Scale Economies, and Organizational Form

Maskin, Eric; Quan, Yingyi; Xu, Chenggang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997

We model organization as the command-and-communication network of managers erected on top of technology (which is modeled as a collection of plants). In our framework, the role of a manager is to deal with shocks that affect the plants that he oversees directly or indirectly. Organizational form...

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