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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?

Molina, Ezequiel - 2014

This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...

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Institutional explanations of economic development : the role of precious metals

Papyrakis, Elissaios (contributor); … - 2005

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Institutions and the environment : existing evidence and future directions

Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica - 2016

In this review we synthetize the existing contributions that use econometric approaches to examine the influence of institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the relationship between institutions and various response...

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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development

Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015

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Drivers of private equity investment activity : are buyout and venture investors really so different?

Kelly, Roger - 2010

This paper investigates the drivers of private equity activity by undertaking a panel data study for 17 European countries. Activity is affected by both cyclical and structural factors. We control for the cyclical factors and examine structural drivers of investment in private equity. We examine...

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Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutional environment : evidence from OECD countries

Abdesselam, Rafik; Bonnet, Jean; Renou-Maissant, Patricia; … - 2017

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When the victor cannot claim the spoils : institutional incentives for professionalizing patronage states

Schuster, Christian - 2016

executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory … to explain when executives forsake patronage for merit. The theory exploits exogenous variation in the institutional … comparison of reforms in Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and the United States validates the theory. How patronage states are …

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Beyond pro liberal conventional wisdom that dominates the World Bank : insights from historical and discursive institutionalism

Kingah, Stephen; Papanagnou, Georgios - 2012

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On the institutionalization of congress(es) in Latin America and beyond

Palanza, M. Valeria; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2012

This paper proposes an agenda for the study of the determinants and the processes by which strong policymaking institutions emerge, with emphasis on the most central democratic institution: the legislature. It reviews extant theories of institutionalization, and proposes further ways of...

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The role of institutional quality on the effects of fiscal stimulus

Avellán, Leopoldo; Galindo Andrade, Arturo José; … - 2020

This paper provides evidence on the effect of fiscal stimulus on economic activity in countries with different degrees of institutional quality. The identification strategy makes use of data on military expenditure to instrument government consumption using local lineal projections as presented...

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