Showing 1 - 10 of 10,495
Economic diversification has gained significant attention as a crucial factor for sustainable development worldwide … diversification for Mongolia. By comparing Mongolia with its designated aspirational and structural peers, the paper aims to shed … light on strategies that can foster economic and societal diversification in the country. Although Mongolia possesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343062
This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. Once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect growth through their interaction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278293
opportunities to enhance long-term output per capita and productivity growth. -- financial crises ; democracy ; political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778791
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650252
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785209
Several studies have documented a negative relationship between democracy and volatility. The latter is usually … institutions, macroeconomic policies and financial development, we find that democracy is the most robust predictor of a country … entry for new firms. This leads to less sectoral diversification: fewer sectors are operated but more resources are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214065
diversification, while the feedback effect of diversification on GDP per capita may be delayed. This pattern fits into theoretical … rationales that view diversification as driven by technology or efficiency and where diversification generates additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382160
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of … Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … production possibilities to illuminate the possible contribution of diversification to economic and social development in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048370
We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317631
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/10011406570