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Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited : comment on "Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence"
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2020
An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102930
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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
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail …: democracy does not lead to a uniform decline in post-tax inequality, but can result in changes in fiscal redistribution and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025324
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Re-Election Incentives And Economic Performance : Theory And Cross-Country Evidence
Shi, Xiangyu - 2022
In this paper, I document three stylized facts on leaders, institutions, and re-election incentives, using cross-country data: (1) in democracies, the positive relationship between leaders' performance and their capability is significantly less pronounced in their last term, when they do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082516
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Essays on the political economy of inequality and redistribution
Campante, Filipe R. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691372
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Impact of economic freedom on the growth rate : a panel data analysis
Hussain, Mohammed Ershad; Haque, Mahfuzul - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-15
This study looks at some non-conventional determinants of economic growth, with the help of the newly developed economic freedom index datasets of the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal(HF/WSJ), which is a cumulative index derived from several sub-indices (trade freedom index, financial...
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Financial development, institutional quality and economic growth : evidence from ECOWAS countries
Appiah, Michael; Li, Fanglin; Frowne, Doreen Idan - In: Organizations and markets in emerging economies 11 (2020) 1, pp. 6-17
Most of the literature that explored the relationship between financial development and economic growth taking into consideration the roles played by institutional quality in the ECOWAS region still debates on the roles of institutional quality on economic growth. This study used data from...
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Real Convergence in the Euro Area : A Long-Term Perspective
Diaz del Hoyo, Juan Luis - 2017
In the euro area, there is mixed evidence that the GDP per capita of lower-income economies has been catching up with that of higher-income economies since the start of monetary union. The significant real convergence performance of some of the most recent members contrasts with that of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941989
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Determinants of Economic Growth : A Cross-Country Empirical Investigation
Macambira Filho, José Kleber - 2013
This article analyses the main determinants of income per capita based on a sample of 50 countries for the period 2005 to 2009, using multivariate statistics. The results show that institutional indicators (heterodox) have a greater impact on the welfare of the population than the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078946
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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
regressions of current economic outcomes on parliamentary systems of government show no effects. Robustness checks suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575381