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Islamic banking, credit and economic growth : some empirical evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Helmi, Mohamad Husam - 2016

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies,...

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Global food prices and inflation

Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2024

This paper uses the endogenous regime switching model with dynamic feedback and interactions developed by Chang et al. (2023) to estimate global food price mean and volatility indicators, the latter measuring uncertainty and risk in the global food market. Both are then included in structural...

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Revisiting the link between growth and federalism : a Bayesian model averaging approach

Asatryan, Zareh; Feld, Lars P. - 2013

and economic growth, this paper revisits the question using a Bayesian Model Averaging approach. The analysis suggests …, there is no robust link, neither positive, nor negative, between output growth and fiscal federalism (measured as sub …

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Economic growth and judicial independence : cross country evidence using a new set of indicators

Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2003

facto JI focusing on countries actually experience. Whether JI affects economic growth is tested for a cross section of 57 … countries. While de iure JI does not have an impact on real GDP growth per capita growth, de facto JI positively influences it. …

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Depressing dependence? : transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2016

the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally … possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by diminishing regional incentives to implement growth-enhancing policies …. In this paper, we study empirically the effect of intergovernmental transfers on economic growth using the German …

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Economic growth and judicial independence, a dozen years on : cross-country evidence using an updated set of indicators

Voigt, Stefan; Gutmann, Jerg; Feld, Lars P. - 2014

strongly con-firms previous results that de jure JI is not systematically related to economic growth, but de facto JI is highly … significantly and robustly correlated with growth. In addition, we show that the effect of de facto JI depends on the institutional …

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Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth : survey and meta-analysis

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014

decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … empirical literature on decentralization and economic growth. Based on our survey, we identify open questions and discuss …

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Making judges independent : some proposals regarding the judiciary

Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2004

JI has a robust and highly significant impact on economic growth. Individual components of both de jure and de facto JI … on economic growth are estimated for their impact on economic growth. Additionally, the effects of other institutional …

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Fiscal federalism and economic performance new evidence from Switzerland

Burret, Heiko Tobias; Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, … - 2018

The link between federalism and economic performance is still ambiguous. Aiming at clarification, we improve on a widespread shortcoming by measuring federalism not just by one variable but by various institutions that constitute it. To this end, Switzerland provides for a laboratory as its 26...

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Financial integration and economic growth in Europe

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2023

This study examines the impact of financial integration on economic growth in the case of 31 European countries over … positive effects of financial integration on economic growth. They also suggest that the financial integration - economic … growth relationship depends on country-specific characteristics such as the level of financial development and the quality of …

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