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While traditional theories of legitimacy have focused on the nation-state, authoritarian regimes and democracies alike seek legitimation not only in the domestic realm but also from international sources. This paper argues that the degree to, and the form in, which they do so depend on the...
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Syrien steht mitten in einem wirtschaftlichen Reformprozess. Dieser ist notwendig, da die Ölreserven zur Neige gehen, wodurch die Leistungsbilanz stark negativ geworden ist. Gleichzeitig ist die Unterbeschäftigung hoch und das Pro-Kopf-Einkommen stagniert. Subventionen und Zahl der...
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Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...
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Reform der Wirtschaftspolitik voraussetzt, um verlorenes Vertrauen zurückzugewinnen. Dazu bietet sich neben einer … überwiegt in dem Papier eine skeptische Haltung gegenüber den Chancen einer Reform im obigen Sinne, selbst wenn sich einzelne …The paper starts from the assumption that a lasting recovery of Japan's economy can only come about by a reform of …
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paradox, the reason being that the process of revealing reform outcomes is an example of sampling without replacement: every … identity (reform winner or loser?) more pessimistic about their chances of benefiting from the reform. Consequently, learning … considerations challenge the conventional wisdom that sequencing should be such that favorable reform outcomes are revealed first …
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We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization … economic reform, economic growth and, with a delay, on investment and institutional change. Episode of high inflation, moreover …, translate into lower subsequent inflation. Crises thus appear to serve as catalysts of reform and institutional change and lead …
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Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be … driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of …
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-owned enterprise reform in the context of Vietnam's accession to the WTO. …
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Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster … macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises … interdependencies between the two types of crises, feedbacks between the two types of reform, the use of alternative measures of …
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