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resource measure, using alternative measures of both resources and institutions, and by studying different time periods. While … institutions are good enough. …
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have low quality institutions, while the curse is reversed if institutions are good enough. Using new data we find that …
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institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …
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This paper investigates the quality of property rights and long-term economic growth in an international cross-section of countries in 1975?1995. The empirical tests indicate that the impact of private property rights on growth is positive and simultaneously determined. Correcting for the...
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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 …
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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 …
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as main agents of entrepreneurship in the BiH. …
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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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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...
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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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