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Protection of Property Rights and Growth as Political Equilibria
Asoni, Andrea - 2008
theoretical mechanisms that relate property rights to economic development. Lack of protection of property rights can result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320102
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Economic Freedom and Economic Crisis
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015
In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504512
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The French curse? On the puzzling economic consequences of French colonization
Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Guenther - 2018
More than 50 years after independence, the majority of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa remain poor with limited rates … of economic growth. One of the most striking features of economic development on the sub-Saharan subcontinent is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917110
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Economic Freedom and Economic Crisis
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015
In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031711
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Protection of Property Rights and Growth as Political Equilibria
Asoni, Andrea - 2008
theoretical mechanisms that relate property rights to economic development. Lack of protection of property rights can result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724971
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Coups and Economic Crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
This paper explores whether coups cause increased crisis risk, and if some types of coups are associated with stronger risk. I use a worldwide sample with data on more than 1200 onsets of economic crisis between 1950 and 2019, treat separate effects of military and civilian coup attempts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256242
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Coups and economic crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
This paper explores whether coups cause increased crisis risk, and if some types of coups are associated with stronger risk. I use a worldwide sample with data on more than 1200 onsets of economic crisis between 1950 and 2019, treat separate effects of military and civilian coup attempts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542225
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Aid and Institutions: Local Effects of World Bank Aid on Perceived Institutional Quality in Africa
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Durevall, Dick - 2021
Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development … countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational allocation of World Bank aid projects to Africa over the 1995 … perceived institutional quality, as measured by citizens' expressed willingness to abide by key formal institutions. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615459
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Does economic freedom boost growth for everyone?
Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2019
While the association between economic freedom and long-run economic growth is well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of economic freedom is full of conflicting findings. In this paper, we take a step towards reconciling the two literatures by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145501
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Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change
Bennett, Daniel L.; Bjørnskov, Christian; Gohmann, … - 2019
therefore focus on what happens to the quality of judicial institutions and political corruption around coup attempts and other …, our results suggest that successful coups are associated with degradation of institutions, with successful military coups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145506