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This research analyzes the effects of the similarities in economic size and institutional level on bilateral trade. It is interested, whether the similarities at the country size and institutional level encourage enlarging volume of international trade between countries. Using panel data of the...
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natural resource rents on non-resource tax effort. I propose a simple theoretical model and complement its insights with an … find evidence of a mitigating role for 'constraints on executive power' and 'democracy'. Other covariates found to be … important are national income per capita, the size of the agricultural sector, and control of corruption. The results suggest …
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Continuous economic development of the European Union countries has reached a stage in which both intra- and inter-state cooperation together with the interaction of economic actors, have become biggest strength. The present paper analyze the level of cooperation between European Union countries...
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This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and...
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While it is recognized that effective state institutions are pivotal for economic development, it is not well understood what their origins are and what explains their cross-country differences. We focus on budget institutions in developing economies, as efficient public finance planning in such...
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Formal private property rights (“FPPRs”) have been advocated as an important prerequisite to economic development: a legal right to property ownership motivates economic players to engage in economic activities when these activities yield property interests, and this, in turn, contributes to...
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This paper examines long-term developments in the quality and efficiency of free market institutional systems across thirteen emerging economies from South, South-east, and East Asia over the 1995-2014 period. The paper also empirically assesses the impact of free market institutions on a...
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The existing literature on determinants of migration flows typically claims that income differences across countries should be a pushing factor for people's movement. We suggest that institutional quality is a better proxy for the factors that trigger migration. People may well want to stay in...
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In this paper, we revisit the relation between institutional factors and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in developing countries by employing a dynamic panel methodology, which enables us to deal with the persistency of FDI flows and endogeneity issues. We also contribute to the...
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. (2017) our main findings are the following: i) countries experiencing a high degree of corruption, a high risk to investment … evidence for a threshold effect on the relationship between investment profile-RER, corruption-RER and political instability …-RER. Specifically, political instability and corruption adversely affect real exchange rate especially when they exceed the threshold …
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