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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442303
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544875
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Political parties, clientelism, and bureaucratic reform
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip - 2015
their patronage powers. We support this conclusion with new evidence from many countries, allowing us to rule out …
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From government to regulatory governance : privatization and the residual role of the state
Perotti, Enrico C. (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003236322
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The private sector advances in China : the evolving ownership structures of the largest companies in the Xi Jinping era
Huang, Tianlei; Véron, Nicolas - 2022
This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based on Fortune Global 500 rankings), and...
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The performance of state-owned enterprises and newly privatized firms : empirical evidence from Egypt
Omran, Mohammed Fawzy - 2002
Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …
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Publicization versus privatization : recent worldwide evidence
Clò, Stefano; Del Bo, Chiara; Ferraris, Matteo; … - 2014 - This version: 28 02 2014
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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output
Zimmermann, Christian; Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D. - 2018
We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914337
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Is the value of bioprospecting contracts too low?
Markandya, Anil; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. - 2010
In order to regulate the proliferated bioprospecting and protect the biological diversity in the source countries, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established a legal framework for the reciprocal transfer of biological materials between the interested parties in bioprospecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749623
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Social interactions and female voting in rural Paraguay : the role of urbanization patterns on the effectiveness of GOVT campaigns
Chong, Alberto; León, Gianmarco; Roza, Vivian; … - 2018
We use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. We find that public campaigns had no effect either on the probability of registration, or on voter turnout in the 2013 presidential...
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