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The nexus between economic freedom and economic growth in the LDCs : an empirical analysis for the period 2000-2021

Afonso, António; Blanco-Arana, M. Carmen - 2023

Economic freedom and economic growth can be connected in most countries, but it is often necessary to specify those aspects of economic freedom that can foster economic growth. This paper examines the nexus between economic freedom and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)...

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Corruption and economic growth : new empirical evidence

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

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Corruption, seigniorage and growth : theory and evidence

Blackburn, Keith (contributor); … - 2008

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on … of the government's budget constraint, we find strong evidence to support these predictions under different estimation …

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Income inequality, capitalism and ethno-linguistic fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2015 - Version 24 December 2014

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...

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Economic globalisation and Africa's quest for greener and more inclusive growth : the missing link

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 2023

This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable...

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Does venture capital investment spur employment growth?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2003

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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The effect of corruption on internal conflict in Iran using newspaper coverage

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Insecure property rights and growth : the roles of appropriation costs, wealth effects, and heterogeneity

Long, Ngo Van; Sorger, Gerhard - 2004

We extend the model of insecure property rights by Tornell and Velasco (1992) and Tornell and Lane (1999) by adding three features: (i) extracting the common property asset involves a private appropriation cost, (ii) agents derive utility from wealth as well as from consumption, and (iii) agents...

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