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Europe : cultural adjustment to a new kind of capitalism?

James, Harold - 2006

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Democracy, property rights, income equality, and corruption

Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2011

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

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Women's rights and development

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729320

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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Democracy does not cause growth : the importance of endogeneity arguments

Ruiz Pozuelo, Julia; Slipowitz, Amy; Vuletin, Guillermo - 2016

This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521223

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 127 countries, with a particular focus on developed and democratic OECD countries. Building on the theoretical frameworks of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and Besley et al....

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