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Globalization and Income Convergence
Wolf, Kaitlyn R.; Young, Andrew T. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014
characteristics with rich countries. Good institutions such as strong property rights and rule-of-law are key amongst those … those institutions to developing countries. Worse, good informal institutions seem to be a necessary condition for formal … institutions to "stick". However, to the extent that good institutions can arise as a "spontaneous order" from individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796069
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Globalization, Institutions, and Income Convergence
Harger, Kaitlyn - 2017
sharing certain characteristics with rich countries or regions. Good institutions such as strong property rights and rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965667
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Globalization and Income Convergence
Harger, Kaitlyn - 2014
characteristics with rich countries. Good institutions such as strong property rights and rule-of-law are key amongst those … those institutions to developing countries. Worse, good informal institutions seem to be a necessary condition for formal … institutions to “stick”. However, to the extent that good institutions can arise as a “spontaneous order” from individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061210
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The legacy of representation in medieval Europe for incomes and institutions today
Pavlik, Jamie Bologna; Young, Andrew T. - In: Southern economic journal 88 (2021) 1, pp. 414-448
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190267
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How Global is Globalization?
Heckelman, Jac C.; Young, Andrew T. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014
We examine a balanced panel of globalization indices for 129 countries over the years 1991-2010. We report evidence of cross-country sigma convergence in the overall globalization index. Sigma convergence also holds for each of the economic, political, and social globalization indices, as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010797439
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Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015
institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345368
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Want freedom, will travel : emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2015
institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317631
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Crises and Government: Some Empirical Evidence
Bologna, Jamie; Young, Andrew T. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014
We examine a panel of 70 countries during 1966-2010 and utilize Reinhart and Rogoff crisis dates to estimate the effects of crises on the size and scope of government over both 5-year and 10-year horizons. We also estimate cross section regressions using 40-year (1970-2010) changes in government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103328
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Can Foreign Aid Motivate Institutional Reform? An Evaluation of the HIPC Initiative
Schlosky, Minh Tam - 2017
A number of political economy concerns are associated with the provision of foreign aid to developing economies. These concerns suggest that foreign aid is likely to have harmful effects on a recipient's institutional quality; also that attempts to give aid conditional on policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958660
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Crises and Government : Some Empirical Evidence
Bologna Pavlik, Jamie - 2015
We examine a panel of 70 countries during 1966-2010 and utilize Reinhart and Rogoff crisis dates to estimate the effects of crises on the size and scope of government over both 5-year and 10-year horizons. We also estimate cross-section regressions using 40-year (1970-2010) changes in government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035187