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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption

Yehoue, Etienne B. - 2007

I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears as a rent-extracting technology in a democratic...

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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending

Kuijs, Louis - 2000

The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more heterogeneous societies spend less on public goods,...

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Does IT help? : information technology in banking and entrepreneurship

Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2021

This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …

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Bankruptcy technology, finance, and entrepreneurship

Souza Sobrinho, Nelson Ferreira - 2017

technology to deal with private debt distress (bankruptcy technology), and obstacles to entrepreneurship (high costs of doing … protection, and eliminate obstacles to entrepreneurship …

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Economic Transition, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and Intergenerational Distribution

Rutherford, Thomas Fox - 2002

A defining feature of transition economies is the expansion of the private sector. Motivated by the observation that new enterprises in transition economies seem to have a strong preference for recruiting young people, this paper studies intergenerational redistribution following from market...

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Do Tax Rates Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity?

Gordon, Roger H. - 1997

When the top personal tax rates are above the corporate rate, high-income individuals have an incentive to reclassify their earnings as corporate rather than personal income for tax purposes. U.S. tax law at least imposes strict limits on the extent to which employees in publicly traded...

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And Schumpeter Said, ""This is How Thou Shalt Grow"" : Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries

Beaugrand, Philippe - 2004

illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP …” world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has been getting poorer while the advanced economies have been getting richer. To …

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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2015

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Crises, labor market policy, and unemployment

Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012

Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...

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Labor market flexibility and unemployment : new empirical evidence of static and dynamic effects

Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012

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