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Supply and demand for telecommunication infrastructure

Veith, Tobias - 2010

to initiate adequate investment incentives. Using a two-equation estimation approach, a direct competition effect (more … service competition increases the supply of infrastructure) can be disentangled from an indirect effect (more service … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …

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The Investment-Financing-Growth Nexus : The Case of Liberia

Rosales, Manuel - 2013

Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country's growth potential. The government has set an ambitious agenda to transform the economy and to reach middle-income country status by 2030 by scaling up investment in infrastructure and human capital....

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The impact of regulations and institutions on competitiveness and productivity : the case of Greece

Nicolitsas, Daphne - In: European journal of comparative economics 18 (2021) 1, pp. 23-47

The discussion on the causes of the Greek crisis has focused on the twin deficits: the fiscal and current-account deficit. The objective of this paper is to examine how the twin deficits came about implicating structural features of the Greek economy which contributed to the loss in...

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Rights and judicial independence

Yazaki, Yukihiro - In: Economics of governance 15 (2014) 2, pp. 179-201

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Aspects of regulation and competition in European telecommunication markets

Veith, Tobias - 2010

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Financial reforms and innovation: A micro-macro perspective

Boikos, Spyridon; Bournakis, Ioannis; Dimitris, … - 2021

We develop a horizontal R&D growth model that allows us to investigate the different channels through which financial reforms affect R&D investment and patent activity. First, a "micro" reformthat abolishes barriers to entry in the banking sector produces a straightforward result: a decrease in...

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Values and norms matter : on the basic determinants of long-run economic development

Voigt, Stefan; Park, Sang-Min - 2008

Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matterʺ for economic development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held by substantial parts of society’s members are an...

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Autocratic transitions and growth

Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2010

In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology - synthetic control methods - to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth of countries that experienced a transition to...

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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....

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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide : recent longitudinal evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...

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