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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148349
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137795
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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development : Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers
Bloom, David E. - 2020
Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...
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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Campos, Nauro F. - 2010
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135630
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Regional Convergence in Russia : Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2020
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839051
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2021
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317253
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Unemployment and Productivity Growth : An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Pannenberg, Markus; Bräuninger, Michael - 2021
Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072168
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129940
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : A Structural Equation Model Approach
Buehn, Andreas - 2009
The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … with two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute … and corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159506