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Institutional context for local economic development in Mexico, 1990-2015. A need for change?
Palavicini-Corona, Eduardo Ivan - 2015
best of current formal and informal institutions prevailing in Mexico, in general, and the studied municipalities, in …, and its positive effect on the development of Mexican municipalities found by Rodriguez-Pose and Palavicini-Corona (2013 … municipalities located in a Mexican state with a long presence of institutions and resulting mechanisms closer to citizens were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400413
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Measuring Party System Change: A Systems Perspective
Nwokora, Zim; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2017
The term ‘party system’, explained Giovanni Sartori, refers to the pattern of interactions among major parties. That pattern can be represented as a type and treated as a proper unit of analysis. When ‘party system’ is defined in this way, it becomes clear that the scholarship lacks a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784906
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Party System Change and the Quality of Democracy in East Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to explore in greater detail the nexus between party system change and democratic qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are affected by the instability of the patterns of inter-party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784909
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Democracy and governance
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956952
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The Impact of Broadband on Economic Activity in Rural Areas: Evidence from German Municipalities
Fabritz, Nadine - 2013
. Using panel data on broadband coverage in 8,460 West German municipalities for the period from 2005 to 2009, we find, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323040
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Determinantes del potencial de desarrollo económico de los municipios de Sevilla 2007-2012
Pérez Conde, José María; Chavarría Ortiz, Carlos; … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 31 (2021), pp. 104-127
The general objective of the study is to quantify the economic potential of 98 municipalities in the province of … see which municipalities have experienced an improvement in their Economic Potential in this 2007-2012 stage of shocking … economic recession as well as the municipalities that have shown a decline in this potential. In addition, the impact of each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494500
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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
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288193
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Creativity over Time and Space - A Historical Analysis of European Cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582036
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Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement
Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018
thousand Greek municipalities that existed in Greece in 1920. Exploiting the spatial variation in the resettlement location, we … spatially contiguous municipalities with identical geographical features and are not driven by pre-settlement differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931578
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Creativity over Time and Space
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2019
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141280