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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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Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among … economic freedom in influencing perceived corruption. The firm-level data helps to explore the relationship between economic … freedom across Indian states and the perceived corruption in the formal sector. A statistically significant negative …
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entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing 'market freedom' is only significant in some … specifications. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurial entry, especially when the richest countries are …
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The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a...
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insiders' capitalism that we describe, trough the costless appropriation of an intricate cobweb of Call-Put structures, has … two sides of the Warrant Economics coin. We argue that the Warrant Economics state of capitalism has been legitimised by a …
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We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
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It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
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Income inequality in the context of large structural change has received a lot of attention in the literature, but most studies relied on household post-transfer inequality measures. This study utilizes a novel and fairly comprehensive collection of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010...
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A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the …
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The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....
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