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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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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu Por - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537265

The political economy of Kazakhstan: a case of good economics, bad politics?

Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - 2021

Can autocracies and their associated institutions successfully implement economic policies that promote growth and investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? Kazakhstan is a case where an autocratic regime has actively projected market-friendly policies and...

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Helping hand or grabbing hand? : state bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009

Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...

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China‘s great boom as a historical process

Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020

Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking … "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor historical analysis. This overlooks deep institutional constraints arising … decentralized innovation. Historic legacies that shape political structures and individual behavior will continue to influence China …

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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy

Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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The political resource curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...

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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development

Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024

We examine the human development consequences of transferring responsibility for public service provision to local governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that devolution of the responsibility for health functions from...

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Risk, institutions and growth : why England and not China?

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - 2011

model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …

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