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The Effects of Terrorism on Economic Growth : Panel Data Approach
Çınar, Mehmet - 2017
The aim of this study is to examine the effects of terrorism on economic growth experienced worldwide. More precisely these terrorist incidents and its effects on economic growth in most countries are classified according to income groups. In this respect, we conduct a panel study (FE and RE...
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Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians
Avis, Eric; Ferraz do Amaral, Claudio A.; Finan, … - 2016
Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by … enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil’s anti-corruption program, which randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807476
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Do government audits reduce corruption? : estimating the impacts of exposing corrupt politicians
Avis, Eric; Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S. - 2016
Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout … the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by … enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in the context of Brazil's anti-corruption program, which randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507872
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The Global Financial Crisis and the Post-Lisbon Prospects of Enlargement
Qerimi, Qerim R.; Sergi, Bruno S. - 2015
The aim of this paper is to examine the transformative processes that are defining the region of south-east Europe in the context of global financial crisis and in the post-Lisbon era. It is also intended to illuminate the current challenges of the region’s EU integration process. Judged in...
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The Effect of the Anti-Corruption Campaign in China : Evidence from Housing Transactions
Chu, Yongqiang - 2019
Using price discounts government officials receive when buying new housing units as a measure of corruption in China …, we examine the effect of the anti-corruption campaign launched by the Xi Jinping administration in 2012. We find that the … the anti-corruption campaign is effective in curbing corruption …
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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that is …
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ARCO : an artificial counterfactual approach for high-dimensional panel time-series data
Carvalho, Carlos C.; Masini, Ricardo; Medeiros, Marcelo C. - 2016
We consider a new method to estimate causal effects when a treated unit suffers a shock or an intervention, such as a policy change, but there is not a readily available control group or counterfactual. We propose a two-step approach where in the first stage an artificial counterfactual is...
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Panel estimating effects of macroeconomic determinants on inflation : evidence of Western Balkan
Durguti, Esat Ali; Tmava, Qazim; Demiri-Kunoviku, Filloreta - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-13
This study analyzes the relationship between macroeconomic variables that influence inflation. Through our research, we will analyze the influence of GDP growth, remittances, level of exports, level of imports, and foreign direct investments on the inflation rate for the Western Balkan. The...
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The perils of counterfactual analysis with integrated processes
Carvalho, Carlos Viana de; Masini, Ricardo; Medeiros, … - 2016
Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing econometric tools to conduct counterfactual analysis with aggregate data when a "treated" unit suffers an intervention, such as a policy change, and there is no obvious control group. Usually, the proposed methods are based on the...
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(Non-)Keynesian effects of fiscal austerity : new evidence from a large sample
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Huart, Florence - 2021
We empirically assess whether a usually expected negative response of private consumption and private investment to a fiscal consolidation is reversed. We focus on a large sample of 174 countries between 1970 and 2018. We also employ three alternative measures of the Cyclically Adjusted Primary...
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