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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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State Capacity, National Economic Policies and Local Development : The Russian State in the Southern Urals
Asmus, Gerda; Franck, Raphael - 2022
rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state increased security forces and levied taxes more efficiently after the uprising …
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Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy : A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One
Medina, Leandro - 2019
estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by … far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP and the shadow economy is larger in Latin America and Sub ….9%. What is really remarkable, that the average decline of the shadow economy from 1991 to 2017 is 6.8 percentage points. The …
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The Global Sanctions Data Base – Release 3 : COVID-19, Russia, and Multilateral Sanctions
Syropoulos, Constantinos; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; … - 2022
period of coverage from 1950-2019 to 1950-2022, which includes two special periods – COVID-19 and the war between Russia and … trade. We also obtain estimates of the effects on trade of the 2014 sanctions on Russia …
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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
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The Political Economy of the G20 Agenda on Financial Regulation
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2020
The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector. The study finds that the size of the banking sector and the presence of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are positively associated with a stronger implementation...
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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
.0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839262
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Religion in Economic History : A Survey
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and Western Europe. Finally, cross …-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …
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The Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan : The Case of Daocheng County
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...
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