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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...
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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...
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A Ricardian model of the tragedy of the commons
lasserre, Pierre; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2001
This paper revisits the tragedy of the commons when agents have different capabilities in both production and encroachment activities, and can allocate their time between them. Under fairly general assumptions on production and encroachment technologies, an individual's expected income is convex...
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Chapter 5. Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage
Nunn, Nathan; Trefler, Daniel - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 263-315). 2014
Domestic institutions can have profound effects on international trade. This chapter reviews the theoretical and … empirical underpinnings of this insight. Particular attention is paid to contracting institutions and to comparative advantage … advantage to domestic institutions. …
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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...
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Insecure property rights and growth : the roles of appropriation costs, wealth effects, and heterogeneity
Long, Ngo Van; Sorger, Gerhard - 2004
We extend the model of insecure property rights by Tornell and Velasco (1992) and Tornell and Lane (1999) by adding three features: (i) extracting the common property asset involves a private appropriation cost, (ii) agents derive utility from wealth as well as from consumption, and (iii) agents...
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Do institutions Matter for economic performance? : theoretical insights and evidence from Turkey
Çetin, Tamer; Çicen, Yildirim B.; Eryigit, Kadir Y. - 2016
This paper studies whether institutions matter for economic performance. For this aim, we first construct a simple … framework illustrating how to examine the interaction between institutions and economic performance from a different point of … interaction between institutions and economic performance in Turkey. Co-integration analysis finds a long-run relationship between …
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Chapter 2 Growth with Quality-Improving Innovations: An Integrated Framework
Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter - 2005
In this chapter we argue that the endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovations provides a framework for analyzing the determinants of long-run growth and convergence that is versatile, simple and empirically useful. Versatile, as the same framework can be used to analyze how growth...
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Neo-institutionalism is not yet a scientific success : a reply to Barry Weingast
McCloskey, Deirdre N. - In: Scandinavian economic history review 65 (2017) 2, pp. 116-123
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