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Roots of Autocracy
Galor, Oded - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
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Benefits and Challenges of Integrating South and Southeast Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2021
. However, since 1991, South Asia, particularly India has adopted a “Look East” policy and opened its market raising huge …
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Integrating India with Asian Production Networks : Prospects and Challenges
Nag, Biswajit - 2015
toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of “Make in India”, India needs to be … service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from … India's perspective. It also examines the trends and patterns; and prospects of integration as well as the prospects for …
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Achieving Sustainable Energy Security : 2030 Outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Fan, Ying - 2015
The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) — major drivers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018208
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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes
Harstad, Bård - 2015
Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor's presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation...
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Democracy and International Conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto - 2016
During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy
Krieger, Tim - 2016
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
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Corporate Taxation and the Impact of Governance, Political and Economic Factors
Gérard, Marcel - 2010
In this paper we first use two international data sets to investigate how governance, political and economic factors influence corporate tax rates. We show that institutional and political factors matter: good governance reduces the tax rate; a parliamentary system, especially a plurality...
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Spatial Concentration of Military Dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977-2007)
Caruso, Raul - 2014
We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...
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Regime Spoiler or Regime Pawn : The Military and Distributional Conflict in Non-Democracies
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014
I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the citizens. In the event of a revolt by the citizens, the military may choose to support the autocrat to crush the revolt or play a passive role. The autocrat determines the...
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