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Corruption & the Wealth of Nations
Bologna Pavlik, Jamie; Grier, Robin M.; Grier, Kevin B. - 2021
Corruption is often cited as a fundamental obstacle to economic development, making anticorruption initiatives an … important policy objective. However, there is little convincing empiricalevidence concerning the benefits of anti-corruption … reform. We fill this gap by identifying a set ofcountries that experienced a sustained increase in corruption control and …
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Values and norms matter : on the basic determinants of long-run economic development
Voigt, Stefan; Park, Sang-Min - 2008
Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matterʺ for economic development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held by substantial parts of society’s members are an...
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The Green Solow model and the threshold effect of human capital on CO2 emissions
Bassetti, Thomas; Pavesi, Filippo; Scotti, Massimo - In: Metroeconomica : international review of economics 75 (2024) 2, pp. 249-279
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Did Okun's Law die after the Great Recession?
Canarella, Giorgio; Miller, Stephen M. - 2016
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On the public debt and growth threshold : one size does not necessarily fit all
Bentour, El Mostafa - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 11, pp. 1280-1299
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Did Okun's law die after the Great Recession?
Canarella, Giorgio; Miller, Stephen M. - In: Business economics : the journal of the National … 52 (2017) 4, pp. 216-226
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Investigating the nexus between fuel ethanol and CO2 emissions : a panel smooth transition regression approach
Cepoi, Cosmin Octavian; Bran, Mariana; Dinu, Mihai - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 6, pp. 1774-1792
In this paper, we fill the gap in the literature by identifying a negative relationship between fuel ethanol consumption and CO2 emissions, building on a sample of 17 European countries covering seven years, from 2010 to 2016. Based on a Panel Smooth Transition Regression approach we show that...
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How Much Should We Trust the Dictator's GDP Growth Estimates?
Martinez, Luis R. - 2019
a large set of country characteristics, including economic structure, urbanization, corruption, state capacity or levels …
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How Much Should We Trust the Dictator's GDP Growth Estimates?
Martinez, Luis R. - 2021
I study the overstatement of GDP growth in autocratic regimes by comparing the self-reported GDP figures to the night time lights (NTL) recorded by satellites from outer space. I show that the NTL elasticity of GDP is systematically larger in more authoritarian regimes. This autocracy gradient...
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The Role of GDP Growth in the ESG Approach at World Level
Leogrande, Angelo; Costantiello, Alberto - 2023
We analyze the question of GDP Growth-GDPG rate in the context of Environmental, Social and Governance-ESG framework. We use World Bank data for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020 using different econometric techniques i.e., Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects,...
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