We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literature and we compare our new variables with those previously used. We also revisit the question of the...

We use new US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the size of government at three levels: federal, state and local. Using 3SLS-IV estimation we find that the size of federal, state and local government all either...

The diverse dimensions, capabilities and sustainability of China's power : an introduction / Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim and Wing Thye Woo -- Perceiving and measuring the power of China. Reflections on China's power / Kwang Ok Kim ; Quantitative assesssment of China's economic power and science and...

We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literature and we compare our new variables with those previously used. We also revisit the question of the...

The votes that come with equities barely figure in retail investment decisions, especially the decisions aided by robo‐advisors. This low profile is consistent with the tiny effect a retail investor's votes would have, if she took them seriously. But despite this disinterest in voting...

Does the quality of government (QoG) affect economic growth? Can a higher governance quality leads to a higher rate of economic growth? This paper will shed some lights on this debate by reinvestigating the relationship between the quality of government and economic growth utilizing four...