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Terrorism and Emergency Constitutions in the Muslim World

Bjørnskov, Christian; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

The Middle East is the most terror-prone region of the world. It is almost exclusively governed by autocratic regimes that often explicitly refer to Islam to justify some of their policies. In this paper, we analyse government reactions to terrorist events in the states that are members of the...

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Do equal rights for a minority affect general life satisfaction?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2017

While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions … latter type of institutions relates to general life satisfaction. The question is how people in general are affected by laws …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917032

Do voters dislike liberalizing reforms? New evidence using data on satisfaction with democracy

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018

Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense...

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Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidencee

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2008

A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest …

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Did Africa's first choices matter? Growth legacies of leaders at independence

Jørgensen, Christina Mangaard; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...

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What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? Global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

important to look at minority-specific effects of policies and institutions and not solely at the effects for the average … citizen, as well as the transmission mechanisms through which policies and institutions affect life satisfaction. We find that …

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The growth effects of institutional instability

Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2009

Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change, which implies at least a little and possibly a lot of institutional instability. We investigate the...

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Political Institutions and Academic Freedom: Evidence from Across the World

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2021

particular, political institutions. We find that moving to electoral democracy is positive, as is moving to electoral autocracy …

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Academic freedom, institutions and productivity

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2021

The issue of what explains differences in the wealth of nations is one of the most classic in economics. We propose de facto academic freedom as an explanatory variable. The main idea is that such freedom allows for the development of new useful knowledge through research unconstrained by...

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Economic Freedom and Economic Crisis

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...

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