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Protests and Beliefs in Social Coordination in Africa
Sangnier, Marc; Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2013
aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … coordination strongly evolve after riots, together with trust in leaders. As no signs of social unrest can be recorded before, the … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933911
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Crime and Erosion of Trust: Evidence for Latin America
Corbacho, Ana; Philipp, Julia; Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
, widespread crime has the potential to weaken trust between citizens and institutions, undermine government reform efforts, and … trust in formal public institutions and trust in informal private networks. It is based on a representative sample of … and the resulting erosion of trust in public institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653710
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The formality in property rights: determinant in the military strategy of armed actors
Guijo, Andrea P. Velásquez - Households in Conflict Network - 2008
The causes of internal conflicts are not easy to identify, and in order to understand its dynamics it is important to determine the factors that influence its persistence. The appropriation of economic resources has been identified as a cause of the conflict; however, asset appropriation may not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767758
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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283566
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazil’s Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276061
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The Role of Trust and Control Institutions in Informal Monetary Transactions
A. LYASKO. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 6 (2012)
Auxiliary institutions fail to perform the function of protecting economic agents’ trust in the liquidity of various … demonstrate a high level of trust among their participants. The durability and continuous reproduction of these monetary … question of trust arising among the parties to these financial transactions and its role in preventing opportunism and breach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860878
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A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship
Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051051
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TRUST, CORRUPTION, BRIBES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Voda, Ana Iolanda; Tiganas, Claudiu; Filipeanu, Dumitru - In: CES Working Papers 5(4) (2013) December, pp. 654-662
European area as far as informal institutions are concerned; moreover, the analysis conducted confirms the existence of a … significant relation between the level of development and the structure of informal arrangements such as: trust level, bribe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010748091
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Great Expectations - The Persistent Effect of Institutions on Culture
Litina, Anastasia - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2014
This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It … is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the institutions at the host country. This … inflated trust of immigrants is documented as the Great Expectations effect. This result is interesting and intriguing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095274
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Great Expectations: The Persistent Effect of Institutions on Culture
Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It … is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the institutions at the host country. This … inflated trust of immigrants is documented as the Great Expectations effect. This result is interesting and intriguing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114192