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Political institutions, policymaking, and economic policy in Latin America

Ardanaz, Martin; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2010

This paper surveys selected themes in the political economy of policymaking in Latin America, with an emphasis on recent research focusing on actual decision and implementation processes, and on the political institutions and state and social actors involved in those processes. In particular,...

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Veto players and policy trade-offs : an intertemporal approach to study the effects of political institutions on policy

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano; Stein, Ernesto - 2010

The capacity to sustain policies over time and the capacity to adjust policies in the face of changing circumstances are two desirable properties of policymaking systems. The veto player approach has suggested that polities with more veto players will have the capacity to sustain policies at the...

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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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Political institutions and street protests in Latin America

Machado, Fabiana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. This relationship is explored...

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Being dependent rather than handicapped in France : does the institutional barrier at 60 affect care arrangements?

Tenand, Marianne - 2018

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Pyramid capitalism : cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt

Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016

Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...

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Innovation and productivity in services and manufacturing : the role of ICT investment

Aboal, Diego; Tacsir, Ezequiel - 2015

Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in … ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that … productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with …

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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?

Ray, Saon - 2014

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

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Integration, resources reallocation and productivity : the cases of Brazil and Chile

Blyde, Juan S.; Iberti, Gonzalo; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2009

productivity leaving aside other effects that arise through the market selection process. Additionally, most studies have focused … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …

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Returns to higher education in Chile and Colombia

González-Velosa, Carolina; Rucci, Graciana; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2015

In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...

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