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Measuring social preferences in developing economies
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Leveley, Ian - 2023
For the past two decades, studies measuring social preferences in developing settings have played an important role in building our understanding of economic development and poverty. This book chapter reviews lab-in-the-field experiments that measure social preferences, summarizes categories of...
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Normalization of citation impact in economics
Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017
This study is intended to facilitate fair research evaluations in economics. Field- and timenormalization of citation … independent of research quality bias the results of citation analyses. We introduce two normalized indicators in economics, which … comparisons of entities in economics (e.g. researchers, institutions, or countries). In this study, we apply the method to 294 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700538
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816
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Corporate taxation, tax administration and financial development
Mardan, Mohammed - 2019
This paper analyzes corporate tax-related policies and the difference between them in developed and developing countries. I show that the relationship between financial development and corporate income tax rates as well as the tax administrations' effectiveness follows a U-shaped pattern, a...
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Urbanization and economic development : a tale of two barriers
Bond, Eric W.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2016
n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in rapidly industrializing countries. We use a dynamic, small open economy model with an abundant supply of surplus labor in rural areas, two types of traded goods manufactured in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421588
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The role of the state in economic development
Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450487
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Why do trade finance gaps persist : does it matter for trade and development
Auboin, Marc; DiCaprio, Alisa - 2017
Trade finance shortfalls now appear regularly. Does this matter for trade expansion and economic development in developing countries? Global trade finance has resumed following the 2009 global financial crisis. However, the pattern of recovery has been uneven across countries and categories of...
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Is the electricity sector a weak link in development?
Colmer, Jonathan; Lagakos, David; Shu, Martin - 2023
This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than suggested by electricity's small share of aggregate economic activity. We answer this question using a dynamic model in which electricity is a strong complement to other inputs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450774
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The economics of a multilateral investment agreement
Che, Jiahua; Willmann, Gerald - 2009
This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808670
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Does public governance always matter? : how experience of poor institutional quality influences FDI to the South
Darby, Julia; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Wooton, Ian - 2010
This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806616