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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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Want freedom, will travel : emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015

We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...

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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets

Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2024

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … paper encourages discussion about how to measure infrastructure capital, particularly highways and streets, and its effects. …

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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China

Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021

Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution....

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Lobbying, corruption and other banes

Campos, Nauro (contributor); … - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...

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More is better! : what can firm-specific estimates of the impact of institutional quality on performance tell us?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Kumbhakar, Subal; … - 2014

We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives us within-country distributions of these effects and...

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Do institutions affect social preferences? : evidence from divided Korea

Kim, Byung-Yeon; Choi, Syngjoo; Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae; … - 2013

The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students to conduct laboratory experiments eliciting social...

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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...

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