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Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and entrepreneurship: The role of institutions in 125 countries
Messono, Omang O.; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary entrepreneurship …. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture …. Drawing on the epidemiological origin of institutions, we propose a framework which argues that the impact of infectious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872981
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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621175
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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288193
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Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Argentina
Bisang, Roberto; González, Andrea; Hallak, Juan Carlos; … - 2014
This study discusses four cases of public-private collaboration (PPC) in the design and implementation of productive development policies (PDP) in Argentina. We find that PPCs have contributed to the success of most of the studied PDPs by facilitating information sharing and creating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314115
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Tourism and Development: A recent phenomenon built on old (institutional) roots?
Pigliaru, Francesco; Liberto, Adriana Di; Brau, Rinaldo - 2010
this paper we frame our starting question within the general debate about the importance of good/bad institutions as … are in fact driven by the presence of growth enhancing institutions. Our empirical analysis exploits newly available … institutions is important for growth. Yet our results strongly suggest that the weight of tourism in an economy is an independent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332475
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Does persistence in start-up activity reflect persistence in social capital?
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015
Emerging literature shows that spatial differences in entrepreneurship tend to persist over longer periods of time. A potential mechanism underlying this pronounced persistence is that high levels of start-up activity lead to the emergence of a regional culture and a supporting environment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348206
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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015
regions rich in marine resources differ from societies with a purely agrarian legacy in terms of institutions, cultural values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388201
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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; von Berlepsch, Viola - 2013
Does the nationality of migrants arriving in any particular territory make a difference for long-term economic development? Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397420
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261261
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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe
Tabellini, Guido - 2005
instruments: the literacy rate at the end of the XIXth century, and the political institutions in place over the past several … and with available measures of institutions in a cross-country setting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261295