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Institutions and behavior: Experimental evidence on the effects of democracy
Dal Bó, Pedro; Foster, Andrew; Putterman, Louis - 2007
whether they are endogenous or exogenous to the society on which they are imposed. Therefore, democratic institutions may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318878
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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Institutions and business cycles
Altug, Sumru; Emin, Mustafa; Neyapti, Bilin - 2011
This paper investigates the relationship between the main business cycles features and the institutional and structural characteristics of countries in which they are observed. We derive the business cycle characteristics of the individual countries using the nonparametric Harding-Pagan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273647
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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007
This paper studies the joint effect of economic and political inequalities on redistributive taxation and institutional quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278272
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
control group, I develop an empirical strategy that disentangles the partial effects of institutions and of endowments on … income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact … mix up the effect of the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of access to trade and of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430076
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Do Institutions and Culture Matter for Business Cycles?
Altug, Sumru; Canova, Fabio - 2012
We examine the relationship between institutions, culture and cyclical fluctuations for a sample of 45 European, Middle … Eastern and North African countries. Better governance is associated with shorter and less severe contractions and milder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500213
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The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
resource measure, using alternative measures of both resources and institutions, and by studying different time periods. While … institutions are good enough. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321368
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Actors, Decision-making, and Institutions in Quantitative System Modelling
De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; van … - 2017
Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to … better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816749
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Does it matter how people speak?
Chong, Alberto - 2006
operation of formal and informal institutions. It also serves a less obvious function, a reassuring quality more closely related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278281
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Diversificación productiva, geográfica y por deudores y su efecto sobre la calidad de la cartera crediticia en Argentina
Anastasi, Alejandra; Bebczuk, Ricardo; Elosegui, Pedro; … - 2008
financial entities of Argentina during the period 1998-2006. To this effect, a database of the financial sector (banking and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325085