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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...

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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?

Aidis, Ruta - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763926

The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence

Falk, Armin - 2015

for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …

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Consensual and Conflictual Democratization

Cervellati, Matteo - 2007

We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of democracies are shown to be crucially related to the conditions under which democratization initially...

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Human Capital and Growth : Specification Matters

Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

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For Benevolence and for Self-Interest : Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations

Estrin, Saul - 2011

We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...

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Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth

Cervellati, Matteo - 2011

This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the 'Third Wave', we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than...

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo - 2012

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....

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