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Institutions, Corruption and Sustainable Development
Venard, Bertrand - 2013
This paper aims to analyze the relationship between institutional quality, corruption level, and economic development …. The methodology makes use of cross-national data developed by the World Bank on perceived levels of corruption … investigate the impact of both institutional framework quality and corruption on economic development. A significant addition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074413
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The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment : firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities
Reyes, José-Daniel; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 15-28
protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration …
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How Do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?
Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - 2005
corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066711
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The Varieties of Capitalism Paradigm : Not Enough Variety?
Allen, Matthew - 2010
This paper attempts to shed light on some of the unstated assumptions of the varieties of capitalism framework by comparing it with its 'close relative'-that is, transaction cost economics-as well as neoclassical economics. These comparisons show that, within the varieties of capitalism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762192
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Social institutions and economic inequality : modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve
Alvarez-Pereira, Brais; Bale, Catherine S. E.; Furtado, … - 2015
Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...
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Institutional determinants of regional diversity of labor market in Poland
Woźniak-Jęchorek, Beata - 2014
The article will focus on regional diversity of the Polish Labor Market from institutional perspective. The Polish Labor Market is geographically diverse in terms of unemployment and employment rates, and also in terms of economic development. At the end of 2013 the difference between the lowest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002447
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Institutions, policy and the labour market : the contribution of the old institutional economics
Katselidis, Ioannis - In: Economic thought 8 (2019) 2, pp. 13-30
This paper seeks to examine the relationship and the interaction between institutions, policy and the labour market in the light of the ideas of the first generation of institutional economists, who, in contrast to neoclassicals, conceived of the economy as a nexus of institutions, underlining,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156339
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Money as a Legal Institution
Desan, Christine A. - 2015
This chapter summarizes the case for considering money as a legal institution. The Western liberal tradition, represented here by John Locke’s iconic account of money, describes money as an item that emerged from barter before the state existed. Considered as an historical practice, money is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153950
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Why Do Inefficient Innovation Institutions Exist in Russia and Ukraine? Mechanisms for Correcting Them
Shiyan (Shyian), Anatoliy A. (Anatolii); Nikiforova, … - 2013
The mechanism for correcting the innovation institutions in Russia and Ukraine, which follows from the game model, is proposed. History of origins of innovation institutions in Russia and Ukraine is described. The necessary conditions for the innovator and the company are obtained. The markers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041830
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Does WTO accession affect domestic economic policies and institutions?
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - 2008
The paper aims to examine policy-anchor hypotheses by analysing the impact of WTO accession process on domestic economic policies and institutions of newly acceded WTO members. It shows that the process of obtaining WTO membership, under certain circumstances, can lead to a positive improvement...
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