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Reevaluating Terrorism and Economic Growth: Dynamic Panel Analysis and Cross-Sectional Dependence
Gaibulloev, Khusrav; Sandler, Todd; Sul, Donggyu - Department of Economics, School of Business Management
Contrary to the extant literature, this paper shows that the impact of terrorism on economic growth is insignificant in … measures of terrorism (i.e., domestic, transnational, and total) and to alternative specifications of terrorism (e.g., level … growth. Moreover, we find that the various forms of terrorism do not affect consumption, investment, and government …
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La formalidad en los derechos de propiedad: ¿Determinante de la estrategia militar de los actores armados?
Velásquez Guijo Andrea P. - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2008)
La apropiación de recursos económicos puede ser el medio de financiación de los grupos armados y a la vez determinante de la persistencia del conflicto. En Colombia, la apropiación de tierras ha sido una estrategia recurrente de los grupos armados al margen de la ley para aumentar su control...
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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...
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Resolution, Recovery and Survival: The Evolution of Payment Disputes in Post-Socialist Europe
Pyle, William - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
What determines the mechanism chosen to resolve a commercial dispute? To what degree does the aggrieved recover damages? And does the relationship survive in the aftermath? The answers to these questions affect expectations as to the costs of transacting and, thereby, the development of markets....
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Resolutions, Recoveries and Relationships: The Evolution of Payment Disputes in Central and Eastern Europe
Pyle, William - 2005
What determines the mechanism chosen to resolve a commercial dispute? To what degree does the aggrieved recover damages? And does the relationship survive in the aftermath? The answers to these questions affect expectations as to the costs of transacting and, thereby, the development of markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636220
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Conductas violentas y hacinamiento carcelario
Barriga, Oscar - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2012)
Este trabajo analiza las consecuencias del hacinamiento en las cárceles argentinas en el período 2002-2008. Es el primero que aborda el problema en un sistema carcelario latinoamericano; también es el primero en discutir y solucionar problemas de endogenidad en las estimaciones que surgen de...
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Determinants of Growth in Fast Developing Countries: Evidence from Bundling and Unbundling Institutions
Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
Purpose – We assess growth determinants in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) fast-developing nations for the period 2001-2011. Particular emphasis is laid on the bundling and unbundling of ten governance dynamics....
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Drivers of FDI in Fast Growing Developing Countries: Evidence from Bundling and Unbundling Governance
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
We assess drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non-contemporary estimation techniques. The following findings are established. First, for both contemporary and...
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The impact of China and India on the developing world
Kaplinsky, Raphael - In: CESifo Forum 8 (2007) 1, pp. 15-21
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Making Globalization Work: Towards Global Economic Justice
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Globalization as a corporate-led process has come under much justifiable criticism. This paper attempts to give the term analytic content distinct from its more ideological formulations.. It then focuses on a normative analysis of globalization from the capabilities perspective. A...
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