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Institutions, financial development, and small business survival : evidence from European emerging markets
Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2020
In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...
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The impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" on local economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lindlacher, Valentin; Pirich, Gustav - 2024
This study investigates the economic impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the staggered timing of the construction in a difference-in-differences framework, we analyze the effect of Chinese-built and financed stadiums on local economic development. Employing...
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Digital infrastructure and local economic development : early internet in Sub-Saharan Africa
Goldbeck, Moritz; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2024
We investigate the impact of early internet availability at basic speeds on local economic development in remote areas of developing countries by analyzing nighttime light emissions across towns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we exploit submarine cable...
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The dynamics of finance-growth-inequality nexus : theory and evidence for India
Pranab Kumar Das; Ganguli, Bhaswati; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2018
The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth "nexus" to finance-growth-inequality "nexus" in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study attempts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952114
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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229266
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Finance, trade, man and machines: a new-Ricardian Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2022
, quality of institutions in economic development. …
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406570
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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data
Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021
We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508730
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Crowdsourcing financial information to change spending behavior
D'Acunto, Francesco; Rossi, Alberto; Weber, Michael - 2019
We document five effects of providing individuals with crowdsourced spending information about their peers (individuals with similar characteristics) through a FinTech app. First, users who spend more than their peers reduce their spending significantly, whereas users who spend less keep...
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …
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