Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 284
Cover Image
How Business Community Institutions Can Help Fight Corruption
Dixit, Avinash - 2017
This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award of government licenses and contracts. The analogy is with contract enforcement institutions studied by economic historians and contract law scholars. The institution in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973046
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974036
Cover Image
Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Resource Dependence on Institutional Quality
De Rosa, Donato - 2017
power accruing from export revenues to subvert the content of laws and regulations, as well as their enforcement. The fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975086
Cover Image
The Political Economy of the Middle Class in the Dominican Republic : Individualization of Public Goods, Lack of Institutional Trust and Weak Collective Action
Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo - 2017
This paper tries to uncover some of the hidden factors behind poor public service delivery in the Dominican Republic. By looking at three sector cases, education, health and electricity, it is possible to observe that in this setting of low quality of public services the "middle class" is opting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975272
Cover Image
Why Do Some Countries Default More Often than Others? The Role of Institutions
Qian, Rong - 2017
This paper examines how a country's weak institutions and polarized government can affect the likelihood of its default on sovereign debt. Using a data set of 90 countries, it shows that strong institutions are associated with fewer sovereign default crises. In addition, when institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975395
Cover Image
Do High and Volatile Levels of Public Investment Suggest Misconduct? The Role of Institutional Quality
Grigoli, Francesco - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of institutional quality on public investment levels over the period 1984-2008. Moreover, it studies how the volatility of public investment and the quality of infrastructure are affected by institutional quality, and explores the contribution of other critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975871
Cover Image
Electricity Connections and Firm Performance in 183 Countries
Geginat, Carolin - 2017
This paper presents new data on electricity connections for businesses in 183 economies. The data cover information on procedures, time, and cost that a small or medium size business with a moderate electricity need has to invest to obtain a new electricity connection. The study finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970764
Cover Image
Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? : The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892365
Cover Image
Export Promotion and Firm Entry into and Survival in Export Markets
Lederman, Daniel - 2017
Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means … to stimulate aggregate export growth. But the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export … from seven Latin American countries during the period 2006-2010. The results suggest that export promotion encourages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971171
Cover Image
Export Performance and Trade Facilitation Reform : Hard and Soft Infrastructure
Portugal-Perez, Alberto - 2017
The authors estimate the impact of aggregate indicators of "soft" and "hard" infrastructure on the export performance … trade facilitation reforms do improve the export performance of developing countries. This is particularly true with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976604