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Access to justice and entrepreneurship : evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011
; Brazil …
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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120850
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship : evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011
; Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315472
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Estimating the causal effect of gun prevalence on homicide rates: a local average treatment effect approach
Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to … impact of noncriminal gun prevalence on homicide and a presumed positive impact of criminal gun prevalence. We find evidence … negative deterrent effect of noncriminal gun prevalence. The beneficiaries of the reduced level of violence may include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268527
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Oil Price Shocks, Protest and the Shadow Economy : Is there a Mitigation Effect?
Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020
In this paper, we study the impact of exogenous variations of international oil prices on the incidence of protest, while exploring the role of the shadow economy as a mitigating factor. We find that oil price shocks are negatively associated with protests, but the effect is less severe the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839829
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Institutional Constraints and Deforestation : An Application to Mexico
Barbier, Edward B. - 2002
Following North (1990), this paper hypothesizes that effective rural institutions may impose additional costs on tropical deforestation through agricultural conversion. This allows a formal agricultural household analysis of institutional constraints on deforestation, and therefore a method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119390
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Contract Violations, Neighborhood Effects, and Wage Arrears in Russia
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Earle, John S. - 2004
We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer?s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel...
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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2000
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262404
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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations: A literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2010
In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276713
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Die Finanzströme von organisierter Kriminalität und Terrorismus: was wissen wir (nicht)?
Schneider, Friedrich - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 73-87
Die Finanzströme von organisierter Kriminalität und Terrorismus sind in dieser Arbeit dargestellt. Zunächst wird ein Versuch unternommen, den Umsatz der organisierten Kriminalität in 20 OECD-Ländern zu schätzen. Das Ausmaß an finanziellen kriminellen Aktivitäten (Umsätzen) dieser 20...
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