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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2017
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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The Dark Side of Disclosure : Evidence of Government Expropriation from Worldwide Firms
Liu, Tingting - 2017
finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …
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Why Multi-Stakeholder Groups Succeed and Fail
Truex, Rory - 2017
Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …
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Decentralization (Localization) and Corruption : New Cross-Country Evidence
Ivanyna, Maksym - 2017
corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using … superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of … governments, is shown to have significant negative effect on the incidence of corruption regardless of the choice of the …
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues
Kraay, Aart - 2017
Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …
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Social Learning About Environmental Innovations : Experimental Analysis of Adoption Timing
Jamison, Julian C. - 2017
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how private and public information affect the selection of an innovation and the timing of adoption. The results shed light on the behavioral anomaly called the "energy-efficiency gap" in which consumers and firms delay adoption of...
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Revisiting the National Innovation System in Developing Countries
Maloney, William F. - 2017
The paper argues that there is a greater commonality of approach between the National Innovation Systems approach and mainstream economic analysis than is often asserted, and that a better dialogue between the two could strengthen both perspectives. To this end, the paper uses an off-the-shelf...
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Regional Integration and Technology Diffusion : The Case of the North America Free Trade Agreement
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
The literature on regional integration agreements (RIAs) is vast and deals with political, economic, and political economy issues. The literature on the economics of RIAs deals mostly with static effects, and concludes that these effects are, in general, ambiguous. So far there has been no...
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Do Poor Countries Really Need More it? The Role of Relative Prices and Industrial Composition
Eden, Maya - 2017
Conventional wisdom suggests too little information and communication technologies (ICT) in poor countries. Indeed, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the capital share of ICT. While this regularity is consistent...
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Seeing is Believing? Evidence from an Extension Network Experiment
Kondylis, Florence - 2017
Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers,and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to...
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