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From institutions to financial development and growth : what are the links?

Fernández, Andrés; Tamayo, César E. - 2015

This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...

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Political competition and financial development : a test of two tales

Assefa, Dawit Z.; Iona, Alfonsina; Leonida, Leone - 2024 - This version: 23 September 2024

This paper examines the relationship between political competition and financial development across a global sample of … of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and Besley et al. (2010), we explore whether political competition impacts financial … efficiency of the financial sector, we find a Ushaped relationship between political competition and financial development in the …

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The fragility of social capital

Sabatini, Fabio; Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro - 2009

This paper addresses two hot topics of the contemporary debate, social capital and economic growth. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on decisive but so far neglected issues: how does social capital accumulate over time? Which is the relationship between social capital, technical progress and...

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Knowing the right person in the right place : political connections and economic growth

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2009

We develop a model of Schumpeterian growth where political connections with long-term politicians can be exploited by low-quality producers to defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors. Through personal relationships developed with the incumbent...

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Public-private collaboration on productive development policies in Costa Rica

Cornick, Jorge; Jimenez, Jorge; Román, Marcela - 2014

Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance: an autonomous institution in charge of policy for a particular economic sector is created, with a board of directors comprising representatives from both the public and...

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Taxation and economic growth in Latin America

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; … - 2013

Tax policy is among the most common and relevant instruments in the toolkit of policy-makers when thinking about promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin American countries. Using a variety of approaches, we estimate the effects on growth of the most...

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The political economy of productivity in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo; Melo, Marcus André … - 2010

This paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in recent decades. Although political institutions provide the president with incentives and the instruments to pursue monetary stability and fiscal discipline they simultaneously...

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Energy dependency and long-run growth

Novelli, Giacomo - 2022

We investigate whether the degree of energy dependency of countries influences their macroeconomic performance in terms of long-run growth. Specifically, we study whether the impact of energy price changes on economic growth differs depending on a country's degree of energy dependency. There are...

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Using carbon pricing revenues to finance infrastructure access

Jakob, Michael; Chen, Claudine; Fuß, Sabine; Marxen, Annika - 2015

Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public revenues. Some of these revenues could be used to cover investment needs for infrastructure providing access to...

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Decentralized provision of public infrastructure and corruption

Shah, Anwar - 2014

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