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The long-term effect of Western customs institution on firm innovation in China
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024
industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … intensities today, which can be attributed to the persisting norms of honesty and lawfulness embedded in the CMC institution. They …
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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and internationalization
Wang, Hao; Han, Yonghui; Fidrmuc, Jan; Wei, Dongming - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Center for …; … - 2020
In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
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Plunging into the sea : ideological change, institutional environments and private entrepreneurship in China
Yang, Jin; Huang, Jian; Deng, Yanhua; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018
This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after … entrepreneurs. Using six waves of a nationwide survey of privately owned enterprises in China from 1997 to 2008, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859564
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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective
Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400868
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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?
Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...
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Political institutions and income (re-)distribution : evidence from developed economies
Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2013
We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-) distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD...
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
the effects of each institution depend on its relationship with other components of the wider institutional system. Part 2 … explaining institutions, and applies the arguments established in earlier sections to the institution of serfdom. It concludes by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371915
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
the effects of each institution depend on its relationship with other components of the wider institutional system. Part 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371916
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Inequality, well-being and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Oberoi, Jaideep; Ahsan, Syed - 2003
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions encompasses formal rules designed by polity (including those in the legal and economics sphere such as rules of property rights, contracts and liabilities) as well as informal...
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How institutions shape land deals : the role of corruption
Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2015
Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups...
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