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How i learned to stop worrying and love the crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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Autocratic transitions and growth

Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2010

-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth … of countries that experienced a transition to autocracy with the growth of a convex combination of similar countries that … statistical framework, in a panel of 160 countries, we focus on 14 episodes of transition from democracy to autocracy. We find …

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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...

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What determines fiscal policy?: evidence from German states

Berger, Helge; Holler, Anika - 2007

This paper explores the factors behind the time path of real spending and revenue in the West German states from 1975 to 2004. The empirical approach stresses robustness and takes into account a large set of economic and political variables. Our results suggest that common economic factors and,...

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The political competition-economic performance puzzle: evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions

Padovano, Fabio; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2008

Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...

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Social security systems, human capital, and growth in a small open economy

Kaganovich, Michael; Meier, Volker - 2008

We consider a small open economy in which the level of public education funding is determined by popular vote. We show that growth can be enhanced by the introduction of pay-as-you-go pensions even if the growth rate of aggregate wages falls short of the interest rate. The reason is that the...

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Growing together: Croatia and Latvia

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010

We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 in an attempt to understand better the extent to which the growth differential between the two countries can be traced to increased efficiency in the use of capital and other...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and … percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing countries is 38.7%, in 25 transition countries 40.1%, in 21 OECD …

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship, and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

evidence on transition economies. …

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