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The Role of Government and Trust in the Market Economy
König, Nadja - 2018
This paper studies the role of governments and its link to trust. We argue that the public's trust strongly depends on governments delivering on their core tasks in a market economy. In some economies, a neglect of core tasks can be observed and there seems to be some erosion, notably in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916570
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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy
Krieger, Tim - 2016
distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured … democracy, where a powerful economic elite cooperates with politicians and bureaucrats for their mutual benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999751
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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117503
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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092229
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Democracy and Growth : Evidence of a New Measurement
Gründler, Klaus - 2016
We present a novel approach for measuring democracy based on Support Vector Machines, a mathematical algorithm for … pattern recognition. The Support Vector Machines Democracy Index (SVMDI) is continuously on the 0-1-interval and enables a … very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001148
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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?
Dennison, T. K.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2021
metastudy of the historical demography literature shows that the EMP did not prevail throughout Europe, its three key components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315780
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Growth in Emerging Europe and East Asia
Schnabl, Gunther - 2021
The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on growth in Emerging Europe and East Asia. Exchange … panel estimations provide evidence for a negative impact of exchange rate volatility on growth both in Emerging Europe and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317017
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Combining Rights and Welfarism : A New Approach to Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives
Van Long, Ngo - 2013
We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091469
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092012
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Incomplete Property Rights and Overinvestment
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009
I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...
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