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Corruption and Economic Growth : New Empirical Evidence

Gründler, Klaus - 2019

The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …

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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

Bluhm, Richard - 2019

The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...

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Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India : Evidence from Night Lights Data

Ranjan, Priya; Talathi, Karan - 2021

We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per...

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Devotion and Development : Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France

Squicciarini, Mara - 2020

This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development and through which mechanism. I examine Catholicism in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914). In this period, technology became skill-intensive, leading to the introduction of...

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Corruption, seigniorage and growth: theory and evidence

Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2008

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

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Insecure property rights and growth : the roles of appropriation costs, wealth effects, and heterogeneity

van Long, Ngo; Sorger, Gerhard - 2004

We extend the model of insecure property rights by Tornell and Velasco (1992) and Tornell and Lane (1999) by adding three features: (i) extracting the common property asset involves a private appropriation cost, (ii) agents derive utility from wealth as well as from consumption, and (iii) agents...

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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … sustainability of high Chinese growth. …

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...

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

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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