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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472013
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Chapter 6 Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A. - 2005
This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental … cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two … “quasi-natural experiments” in history, the division of Korea into two parts with very different economic institutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023781
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Is productive entrepreneurship getting scarcer? : a reflection on the contemporary relevance of Baumol's typology
Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023
constraints on productive entrepreneurship would require that the decline in level-two institutions, such as democracy and science …We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335837
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The role of the government in entrepreneurship development : evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dzafić, Zijad; Babajić, Amra - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 14 (2016) 1, pp. 68-79
as main agents of entrepreneurship in the BiH. …
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Stronger property rights enforcement does not hurt social welfare : a comment on Gonzalez’ “Effective Property Rights, Conflict and Growth (JET, 2007)”
Yoo, Yoon-ha - 2013
In his recent paper in JET, Gonzalez (2007) issues a warning that gradual improvement in property rights enforcement may sometimes backfire and hurt social welfare through its unintended instigation of appropriative activities. By introducing a new property-rights parameter within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009778507
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Analysis of the Economic Behavioral Growth, Technological Change and Productivity in Oman
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2012
The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has depended on oil production for its economic life for the past decades. However, it was typically known for traditional industries and trade, helped by her long sea shores and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172608
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Effective Property Rights, Conflict and Growth
Gonzalez, Francisco M. - 2009
This paper shows how the interaction between conflict and growth can give rise to a nonmonotone relationship between property rights and social welfare. This interaction is illustrated in a model of endogenous growth in which equilibrium diversion of resources is the cost of securing effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199843
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewics, Tomasz - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191026
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Property rights and intellectual property protection, GDP growth and individual well-being in Latin America
Ahmed Lahsen, Amina; Piper, Alan T. - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 1-21
A central argument for increased protections of property rights (PR) is the role they play in encouraging economic transactions, investment and economic growth. Likewise, the utilitarian justification of intellectual property laws is that such rights promote creative inventions and innovation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205118
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What makes a revolution?
MacCulloch, Robert - 1999 - Draft
A fundamental requirement of market economies is the security of ownership claims to property. Yet history is littered with cases of challenges to these claims. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519062