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Corruption, Growth, and the Environment : A Cross-Country Analysis

Welsch, Heinz - 2003

-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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Corporate Donations to the Arts: Philanthropy or Advertising?

Frank, Björn; Geppert, Kurt - 2002

This paper is an attempt to provide evidence on two questions: Why do companies sponsor art events, and where exactly does the money go? We analyse data collected on the revenue structure of cultural institutions in Berlin and Hamburg. This data set not only tells us where the money goes, it...

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A forgotten issue: distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, Christa Katharina; … - 2000

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

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When can we trust population thresholds in regression discontinuity designs?

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011

A recent literature has used variation just around deterministic legislative population thresholds to identify the causal effects of institutional changes. This paper reviews the use of regression discontinuity designs using such population thresholds. Our concern involves three arguments: (1)...

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Foreign direct investment, competition and industrial development in the host country

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2004

This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and positive market externalities which foster the development of local industry. Using a simple...

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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies

Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011

We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...

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Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Klühs, Theres; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2017

While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure we show that financial literacy, representing the demand-side of financial markets, also has a beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows to consider institutional...

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Competitive devaluations in commodity-based economies: Colombia and the Pacific Alliance Group

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costamagna, Rodrigo; … - 2016

This paper investigates whether there is an S-Curve in Colombia using bilateral and disaggregated quarterly data for the period 1991-2014. More precisely, the short-run effects of a depreciation on the TB are analysed in 27 industries covered by the PAG Free Trade Agreement. The S-Curve found in...

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Does quality make a difference? Employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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