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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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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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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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Life cycle employment and fertility across institutional environments

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility choices and estimate approximate decision rules using data on married women in Italy, Spain and France. The pattern of estimated state dependence effects across countries is...

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Remittances, institutions and economic growth

Catrinescu, Natalia; León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; Piracha, … - 2006

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased enormously over the last decade, academic 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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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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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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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - 2015

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...

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