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Trade, Insecurity, and Home Bias : an Empirical Investigation
Anderson, James E.; Marcouiller, Douglas - 2021
Corruption and imperfect contract enforcement dramatically reduce trade. This paper estimates the reduction, using a …
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Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact : Evidence from China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753256
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Global Patterns of Income and Health : Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
Deaton, Angus - 2010
health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760511
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128268
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
Several studies link modern economic performance to institutions transplanted by European colonizers and here we extend this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135762
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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138144
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122873
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Reshaping Institutions : Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan
Casey, Katherine P. - 2011
Although institutions are believed to be key determinants of economic performance, there is limited evidence on how they can be successfully reformed. Evaluating the effects of specific reforms is complicated by the lack of exogenous variation in the presence of institutions; the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125582
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Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further : Reply to "the Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
David Albouy expresses three main concerns about the results in Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) on the relationship between potential settler mortality and institutions. First, there is a general concern that there are high mortality outliers, potentially affecting this relationship, with...
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Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012
We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103806