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Uslaner, Eric M. - 2006

Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to positive outcomes in societies

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Corruption, income inequality, and poverty in the United States

Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Gunalp, Burak - 2008

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …

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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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Move to markets? An empirical analysis of privatization in developing countries

Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna; Munger, Michael C. - 2002

We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle-income developing countries. The theoretical perspective turns on the concept of net political benefits, which in our model is the primary determinant of privatization policies....

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Assessing SDGs: A New Methodology to Measure Sustainability

Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2015

The FEEM project APPS – Assessment, Projections and Policy of Sustainable Development Goals – focuses on the quantitative assessment of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations at the end of September 2015. The project consists of two phases. The...

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Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law and increasing returns to scale: A comparison across developed countries

Millemaci, Emanuele; Ofria, Ferdinando - 2012

The objective of this study is to investigate the validity of the Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law in explaining the long run determinants of the labor productivity growth for the manufacturing sector of some developed economies (Western European Countries, Australia, Canada, Japan and United States). We...

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Cultural diversity and economic performance: Evidence from European regions

Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco … - 2009

We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...

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The Allure of Technology: How France and California Promoted Electric Vehicles to Reduce Urban Air Pollution

Calef, David; Goble, Robert - 2005

All advanced industrialized societies face the problem of air pollution produced by motor vehicles. In spite of striking improvements in internal combustion engine technology, air pollution in most urban areas is still measured at levels determined to be harmful to human health. Throughout the...

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How Fast are Small Tourist Countries Growing? The 1980-2003 Evidence

Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2007

We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent...

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Environmental Policy Performance and its Determinants: Application of a Three-level Random Intercept Model

Galeotti, Marzio; Rubashkina, Yana; Salini, Silvia; … - 2014

We propose the use of a three-level random intercept model to measure the degree of environmental policy performance of different countries and to study its determinants. Inspired by the literature on multilevel latent models and Item Response Theory (IRT), this framework treats policy...

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