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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - CESifo - 2014
necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747224
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Secrecy Jurisdictions
Schjelderup, Guttorm - CESifo - 2015
This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) for the users of tax havens. This leads to moral hazard and transaction costs...
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Determinants of Human Development: Capturing the Role of Institutions
Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - CESifo - 2011
In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing … institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process … as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human Development Index (HDI). We do so within a novel dynamic panel modelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914288
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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth
Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2011
This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s...
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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 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...
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - CESifo - 2013
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...
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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs
Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia - CESifo - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors’ choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely,...
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Creeping Normalcy: Fractionation of Indian Land Ownership
Russ, Jake; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2014
In 1992 the General Accounting Office (GAO) published a quantitative survey of Indian land ownership of twelve reservations, which was the first and still is the only survey of Indian land ownership. In our study we use 2010 data to show how ownership fractionation for these reservations has...
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - CESifo - 2013
Ages. We argue that training in the law, and the consequent development of legal and administrative institutions, was an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706001
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A Generalized Steady-State Growth Theorem
Irmen, Andreas - CESifo - 2013
Uzawa’s steady-state growth theorem (Uzawa (1961)) is generalized to a neoclassical economy that uses current output, e. g., to create technical progress or to manufacture intermediates. The difference between aggregate final-good production and these resources is referred to as net output....
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