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Pollution, economic development and democracy : evidence from the MENA countries
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Markwardt, Gunther - 2012 - This version: February 2012
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are among the world's top emitters of CO2 and SO2 in per capita terms. The objective of this paper is to analyze whether investing in the democratic development of these countries is an effective tool to make the economic growth in this region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534000
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Hold your breath : a new index of air quality
Bühn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
Environmental quality and climate change have long attracted attention in policy debates. Recently, air quality has emerged on the policy agenda. We calculate a new index of air quality using CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita as indicators and provide a ranking for 122 countries from 1985 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534003
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Hold your breath : a new index of air pollution
Bühn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - In: Energy economics 37 (2013), pp. 104-113
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009759436
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Pollution, economic development and democracy: Evidence from the MENA countries
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Markwardt, Gunther - 2012
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are among the world's top emitters of CO2 and SO2 in per capita terms. The objective of this paper is to analyze whether investing in the democratic development of these countries is an effective tool to make the economic growth in this region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294389
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Hold your breath: A new index of air quality
Buehn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
Environmental quality and climate change have long attracted attention in policy debates. Recently, air quality has emerged on the policy agenda. We calculate a new index of air quality using CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita as indicators and provide a ranking for 122 countries from 1985 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294395
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Corruption and political stability : does the youth bulge matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2016 - This version: 05.05.2016
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474632
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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014
hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002 - 2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15 - 64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464999
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Cognitive ability and corruption : rule of law (still) matters
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2018 - This version: 30 May 2018
of a higher national average cognitive ability on corruption holds only in countries with a relatively high quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858859
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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014 - This version: November 27, 2014
hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437952
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The effect of corruption on internal conflict in Iran using newspaper coverage
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022
We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803751