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The Effect of Elections on Economic Growth: Results from a Natural Experiment in Indonesia
Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014
Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from … impact on economic growth. This paper narrows down the question to empirically estimating the causal effect of local … elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504494
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Bottom-up policies trump top-down missions
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2023
that these policies are based on an overly mechanistic view of innovation and economic growth, suggesting that a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542162
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Did Africa's first choices matter? Growth legacies of leaders at independence
Jørgensen, Christina Mangaard; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015
We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442480
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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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Protection of Property Rights and Growth as Political Equilibria
Asoni, Andrea - 2008
This paper presents a survey of the literature on property rights and economic growth. It discusses different … slow economic growth through different channels: expropriation of private wealth, corruption of civil servants, excessive … part of the paper illustrates relevant empirical works on property rights and growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320102
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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? Mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017
democratization and therefore prefer political institutions with strong veto players. Parallel civilian interests conversely suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917070
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Coups and economic crises
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022
from both democracy and military dictatorship. …
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504502
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries : The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050566
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Firm Growth, Institutions and Structural Transformation
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - 2010
. We analyze institutions and policies conducive to structural transformation, in particular the expansion of high-growth … understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms … growth is viewed as resulting from the continuous discovery and use of productive knowledge. Rapid firm growth requires a set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320338