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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative … patterns, but much smaller magnitudes in response to state-specific shocks. -- trust ; institutions ; confidence ; survey data …
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Confidence in public institutions and the run up to the October 2019 uprising in Lebanon
Fakih, Ali; Makdissi, Paul; Marrouch, Walid; Tabri, Rami V. - 2020
dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most public institutions has …
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! : long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
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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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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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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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Good and bad institutions : is the debate over? ; cross-country firm-level evidence from the textile industry
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza - 2011
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...
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