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Institutional transplant and cultural proximity : evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura - 2015 - This version: November 2015
stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405198
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Burying the bumblebee once and for all : does big government hurt growth less in high-trust countries?
Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2016
High levels of social trust has been linked to both public sector size and long term economic growth, thereby helping to explain how some countries are able to combine high taxes and relatively high levels of economic growth. This paper examines if social trust as a background factor also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444480
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How Fiscal Policy Affects Non-oil Economic Performance in Azerbaijan?
Aliyev, Khatai - 2020
The role of fiscal policy in promoting economic growth has been subject to many studies since its suggestion by Keynes who stated expansionary/contractionary impact of public expenditures/taxes. In this context, effectiveness of fiscal policy use to develop non-oil sector in resource rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829190
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Government expenditure on human capital and growth in Namibia : a time series analysis
Shafuda, Christopher P. P.; De, Utpal Kumar - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 9 (2020) 21, pp. 1-14
An attempt is made in this paper to examine the impacts of government spending on human capital on human development indicators like healthcare outcomes, education achievements and increase in national income in Namibia using time series data from 1980 to 2015. The analysis reveals a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256228
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Government Expenditure on Human Capital and Growth in Namibia : A Time Series Analysis
De, U. K. - 2020
An attempt is made in this paper to examine the impacts of government spending on human capital on human development indicators like healthcare outcomes, education achievements and increase in national income in Namibia using time series data from 1980 to 2015. The analysis reveals a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095681
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528503
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Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity : Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo - 2016
stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000827
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Culture, Diffusion, and Economic Development
Harutyunyan, Ani - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978447
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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics
Gershman, Boris - 2016
This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983798
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From optimal to stagnant growth : the role of institutions and culture
Petrakēs, Panagiōtēs E.; Valsamis, Dionysis G.; … - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 2 (2017) 3, pp. 97-105
Optimal growth requires pro-growth institutions and culture. In an optimal growth pattern, institutions and culture … facilitate entrepreneurship and innovation. In contrast, if the development and coevolution of institutions and culture are … and culture that account for their coevolution process. Otherwise, imported growth (i.e., incoming capital flows or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847076