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The long-term effect of Western customs institution on firm innovation in China
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024
Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the …
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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of … production possibilities to illuminate the possible contribution of diversification to economic and social development in …
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Ethnic favoritism : an axiom of politics?
De Luca, Giacomo; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2015
phenomenon, which is present in poor as well as rich countries; that political institutions have a weak effect on ethnic … polities; and that ethnic favoritism does not contribute to sustainable development. …
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Geography, institutions, and entrepreneurship
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, … - 2025
the direct and indirect effects (through institutions) of geography reveals that the impact of the number of islands can … number of islands, the spillovers of oceanic geography through institutions on entrepreneurship form the novel contributions … countries with numerous islands, weakens the positive impact of institutions. This is likely due to institutional fragmentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015394145
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Fair institutions
Valasek, Justin; Wang, Weijia - 2025
The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important and novel dimension of context: whether the choice to redistribute occurs before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015371965
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Feeling the heat : temperature, physiology & the wealth of nations
Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - 2014
social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250034
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Unemployment and development
Feng, Ying; Lagakos, David; Rauch, James E. - 2018 - This Version: Oct 2018
This paper draws on household survey data from countries of all income levels to measure how average unemployment rates vary with income per capita. We document that unemployment is increasing with GDP per capita. Furthermore, we show that this fact is accounted for almost entirely by...
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A threshold model of urban development
Vesperoni, Alberto; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018
framework to think about the interlinkages between various measures of urban development which became increasingly available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927895
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Politicized trade : what drives withdrawal of trade preferences?
Gassebner, Martin; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2017
While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers alternative channels such as trade policy towards developing countries. We analyze eligibility investigations and revoking of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits...
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