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partial or captured democracy. We provide as well econometric support showing that even when de facto is modelled as a …
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ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the … finding of a weak effect of exogenous diversity on growth and then we show that accounting for how diversity changes over time … latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization …
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This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
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The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and political transition using data from the New Barometer...
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This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … growth. Credit guarantee is one of the most significant positive links between economic growth and democracy. The marginal …
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This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social … fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries … the security of property rights has played a critical role in promoting economic growth. Ethnic heterogeneity has been a …
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How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...
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This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
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This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
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This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample selection bias using a procedure suggested by Buchinsky (2001), which is based on a Newey (1991,...
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