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Democracy and reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and … countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset … 150 countries over the period 1960-2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815935
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Can intra-regional trade act as a global shock absorber in Africa?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Meng, Qingwei; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two regional economic communities - the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307945
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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288695
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Small state regional cooperation, South-South and South-North migration, and international trade
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010
This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962846
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Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial virginia
Nikolova, Elena; Nikolova, Milena - 2016
We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543173
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704213
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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019
new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country's democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link … between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028804
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Do leaders' characteristics and regime transitions in Africa matter for citizens' health status?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2016
Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be effectively achieved without examining the quality of leadership, transitions and regimes and how they impact on the decisions and the policy effectiveness that bring about improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580812
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Electoral democracy at work
Askenazy, Philippe; Breda, Thomas - 2020
We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213011
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The political scar of epidemics
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2020
What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find similar negative effects on confidence in public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237452