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Oil Price Shocks, Protest and the Shadow Economy : Is there a Mitigation Effect?
Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020
In this paper, we study the impact of exogenous variations of international oil prices on the incidence of protest, while exploring the role of the shadow economy as a mitigating factor. We find that oil price shocks are negatively associated with protests, but the effect is less severe the...
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship : evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011
local level, or to pre-existing trends in entrepreneurship. -- access to justice ; courts ; entrepreneurship ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009266678
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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120850
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship : evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011
local level, or to pre-existing trends in entrepreneurship. -- access to justice ; courts ; entrepreneurship ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315472
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339102
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Trade integration in West Africa : does the quality of institutions matter?
Gammadigbe, Vigninou - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 65-81
institutional quality matters. The quality of institutions in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries … influences bilateral trade. Political stability is an essential component of the quality of the institutions that determine trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805544
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Unbundling the relationship between economic shocks and crime
Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Vargas, Juan F. - 2021
Intuitively, by increasing the opportunity cost of engaging in criminal activities, positive economic shocks should reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best ambiguous. This may be because certain types of shocks...
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From fossil fuels to renewables : studies on the effects of resource endowments and climate policy on economic outcomes
Montoya Gómez, Ana Maria - 2020
role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262529
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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …
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Low expectations or different evaluations : what explains immigrants' high levels of trust in host country institutions
Röder, Antje; Mühlau, Peter - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422304