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How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries
Herrera Dappe, Matias - 2017
studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of … port assets or measures that can be very noisy. To avoid these problems, this paper builds a measure of economic efficiency … Western Pacific Oceans in terms of their port efficiency, and assesses the effect of increased efficiency. It finds that …
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The Impact of Investment Policy in a Changing Global Economy : a Review of the Literature
Echandi, Roberto - 2017
Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity improvements, better jobs, and knowledge transfer. Further, it can serve as a vehicle for transformation of domestic production and better integration with global value chains....
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Labor Market Institutions : A Review of the Literature
Betcherman, Gordon - 2017
, the impacts of these institutions are smaller than the heat of the debates would suggest. Efficiency effects of labor …
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Mtefs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco - 2017
efficiency. Only top-phase MTEFs have a significantly positive effect on technical efficiency …
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International Benchmarking for Country Economic Diagnostics : A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Norambuena, Vivian - 2020
This paper discusses the analytical foundations of international comparisons for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. The paper presents the Stochastic Frontier approach and applies it to estimate feasible frontiers or...
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A Framework for Evaluating Alternate Institutional Arrangements for Fiscal Equalization Transfers
Shah, Anwar - 2006
Fiscal equalization programs are fairly common features of intergovernmental fiscal relations in industrial countries. Some developing countries have also recently introduced these programs and still others are contemplating such programs. Institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization vary...
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Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business : Region-by-Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector
BRUNETTI, AYMO AART OLIVER - 2017
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Institutional and Structural Determinants of Investment Worldwide
Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017
This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and...
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Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Resource Dependence on Institutional Quality
De Rosa, Donato - 2017
This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the potential effects of other geographic, economic and cultural initial conditions. Analysis of a panel of countries from 1996 to 2010 indicates...
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Related Lending and Banking Development
Cull, Robert - 2017
Does related lending have positive or negative effects on the development of banking systems? This paper analyzes a unique cross-country data set covering 74 countries from 1990 to 2007, and finds that related lending, on average, does not have any effect on the growth of credit. The authors do...
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