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Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions

Lucifora, Claudio - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labor market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which some features of the political process, by reducing the future yields of policy interventions, induce an incumbent government to choose labor market...

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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

Campos, Nauro F. - 2009

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...

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Growth, Volatility and Political Instability : Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896-2000

Campos, Nauro F. - 2009

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show...

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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and institutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...

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Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions Between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law

Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021

Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower

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Political Uncertainty and Household Savings

Aaberge, Rolf - 2015

Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their consumption after an uncertainty shock. We study household savings and expenditure adjustment...

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Two to Tangle : Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...

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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita - 2011

corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

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