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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … der Maquiladora-Industrie in Mexiko (Kapitel 4), dem Zusammenspiel von Migration und Handel und deren Auswirkungen auf die …
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Corruption and Firms
Colonnelli, Emanuele - 2020
We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in...
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Democracy and institutional quality : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model …
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Capitalism and (versus?) democracy : stock markets and democratization in transition
Hartwell, Christopher A. - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 13/15, pp. 979-983
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
This paper revisits and critically reevaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that existing studies and support for this hypothesis because they fail to control for the presence of...
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Chapter 21. Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1885-1966). 2015
suggesting that inequality tends to increase after democratization when the economy has already undergone significant structural …
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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?
Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354080
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Relationship between institutional factors and FDI flows in developing countries : new evidence from dynamic panel estimation
Kurul, Zühal; Yalta, A. Yasemin - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-10
endogeneity issues. We also contribute to the literature by using various measures of institutions to identify which aspects of …
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