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Development at the border: a study of national integration in post-colonial West Africa
Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Spielvogel, Gilles - DIAL - 2010
In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740202
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Development at the border: a study of national integration in post-colonial West Africa
Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Spielvogel, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707640
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Indices, Institutions and Economic Growth: In Search of Reliable Indicators (recount)
Yanovsky, Konstantin; Menyashev, Rinat; Ginker, Timofey - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2014
The ratings of economic and political institutions are well-known and widely used in the Social Science literature. These ratings are heavily relied on Experts' evaluations with subjective ordinal ranking (i.g., from -10 to 10 points). Such evaluations can be occasionally driven by ideological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929542
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Institutions, ratings and economic growth: in search of reliable indicators
Menyashev, Rinat; Natkhov, Timur; Yanovskiy, Konstantin - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
The ratings of political institutions are well-known and widely used in academic literature. These ratings are mostly based on expert evaluations. However, such evaluations can be subjective and occasionally driven by ideological considerations. In this paper we propose two new indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734226
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Institutional change and economic evolution in regions
Grillitsch, Markus - 2014
the context of evolutionary economic geography, a proposal for understanding regional institutional frameworks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400186
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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621175
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Institutional change and economic evolution in regions
Grillitsch, Markus - 2014
the context of evolutionary economic geography, a proposal for understanding regional institutional frameworks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487791
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668293
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Myths and Realities of Long-run Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants
Hasan, Lubna - In: The Pakistan Development Review 46 (2007) 1, pp. 19-44
highlighted in the literature: institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is the more … important. The institutions school assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the geography school considers … their hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796653
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Do Institutions Rule? The Role of Heterogeneity in the Institutions vs. Geography Debate
Kourtellos, Andros; Strengos, Thanasis; Tan, Chih Ming - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2009
versus geography debate in growth are potentially misleading. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987131