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Explaining Inequality between Countries : The Declining Role of Political Institutions
Hussey, Andrew - 2017
countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …
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The Business Environment in the Transition
Carlin, Wendy - 2012
Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …
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Human Capital and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Katsimi, Margarita - 2007
view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777642
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Investment in Relationship-Specific Assets : Does Finance Matter?
Strieborny, Martin - 2013
-enhancing investment in relationship-specific assets by signalling creditworthiness and long-term planning horizon of their borrowers. We … empirically confirm this hypothesis by showing that industries dependent on relationship-specific investment from their suppliers …
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Shadow Economies Around the World : New Results for 158 Countries Over 1991-2015
Medina, Leandro - 2017
Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956708
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Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production Around the World
Bridgman, Benjamin - 2015
We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in total hours worked initially declines and then hardly...
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Globalization and Income Inequality Revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
estimation methods are discussed and critically evaluated …
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A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of International Reserves
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013
between developed and developing economies and is not stable over time. The estimation results indicate that, especially …
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