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Corruption in Russia : historic legacy and systemic nature
Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2018
towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789215
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Do economic crises lead tourists to closer destinations? : an analysis of Italy's regional data
Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - 2015
This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping … 2012 are years of economic recession. The analytical tool employed is a gravity model. Our results document that distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492324
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Explaining spatial patterns of foreign employment in Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2017
important. Geographical distance plays a major role in location decisions, a finding that is especially pronounced for workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611136
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Trade blocs and trade wars during the interwar period
Jacks, David S.; Novy, Dennis - 2019
What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024515
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Markups, quality, and trade costs
Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2019
bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … unit, our model predicts that markups rise with distance and fall with tariffs, but these effects are heterogeneous and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157845
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Ethnic fractionalization, governance and loan defaults in Africa
Andrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, … - 2014
quality of governance) and the degree of market segmentation (depending on the level of ethnic fractionalization). The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424751
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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade
Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016
How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417707
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The Bounty of the Sea and long-run development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015
regions rich in marine resources differ from societies with a purely agrarian legacy in terms of institutions, cultural values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346874
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354080
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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2013
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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