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institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …
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We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices. We observe that most of the available aggregation techniques produce indices that are often too favorable for autocratic regimes and too unfavorable for democratic regimes....
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(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …
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creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on …
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institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and … opportunities as well as the distribution of political power shaped by underlying institutions, in combination with the extent of … selection into institutional change, and run horse races between underlying institutions. We find that freedom of expression …
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activities, and the role of institutions on the environment among Asian countries for the period 2000-2018. The Environmental … regions can be moderated by good regulation when good institutional factors are in place. Thus, greenfield investments in the … presence of supporting institutions can be a viable source of green finance. In addition, our results also support the …
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Politicians and international organisations advocate for increased regulation and government control of industry in order to handle climate change and reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions. However, it remains an open question how economic freedom is associated with environmental damage and...
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This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...
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