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The consequences of corruption : evidences from China
Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2010
With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729042
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The Consequences of Corruption : Evidences from China
Dong, Bin - 2010
With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141965
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Financial system performance in European Union countries : do country's governance indicators matter?
Barbu, Teodora Cristina; Boitan, Iustina Alina - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 6, pp. 1646-1664
of corruption, solid political and economic stability determine significant effects on most financial variables … factors the main results hold, in that monitoring corruption, maintaining political stability and designing sound economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505359
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there is scarcely any evidence of how it influences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844125
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872787
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Political competition and economic performance : theory and evidence from the United States
Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten; Sturm, Daniel - 2006 - First draft June 2005, this version November 2005
We formulate a model to explain why the lack of political competition may stifle economic performance and use the United States as a testing ground for the model’s predictions, exploiting the 1965 Voting Rights Act which helped break the near monpoly on political power of the Democrats in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439365
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Democracy and Economic Growth : Do Swing Voters Make a Difference?
Bhardwaj, Abhishek - 2017
Using actual voting records of simultaneous elections held for Indian federal and regional assemblies -- where same political parties contest against each other in both type of elections -- we identify swing voters. We find that the representatives supported by swing voters outperform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970508
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Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking
Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017
We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120573
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Non Committed Voters and Economic Growth : Evidence from India
Bhardwaj, Abhishek - 2017
Using actual voting records of simultaneous elections held for Indian federal and regional assemblies-where same political parties contest against each other in both type of elections we identify non-committed voters. These are split ticket voters who vote for different parties in two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947738
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Political fragmentation, fiscal policy and economic growth in Indian States
Uppal, Yogesh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan - In: European journal of comparative economics 20 (2023) 2, pp. 161-191
We study how a fragmented political landscape affects fiscal policy and economic growth with a sample of 15 Indian States over the period 1980-2000. We measure state-level political fragmentation with an inverse Herfindahl index for party vote shares in the state legislature. Our results show...
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