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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2015
This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe … of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … the beneficial e.ects of institutions, mitigating the adverse e.ects of non-cohesiveness, its simultaneous contribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333029
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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The primacy of institutions reconsidered : the effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Carstensen, Kai; Gundlach, Erich - 2005 - Revised, August 2005
institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical … from our estimates that implementing good institutions appears to be necessary but not sufficient to generate a persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415290
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Innovation at the World Bank : selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005
Grawe, Roger - 2013
The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202213
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The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment : firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities
Reyes, José-Daniel; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 15-28
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163637
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The crisis after the crisis : resilience or reset?
Ioan-Franc, Valeriu; Diamescu, Andrei-Marius - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 58, pp. 864-874
The concept of "the crisis after the crisis" recently introduced in the academic debate refers to the fact that, since the outbreak of the health crisis generated by SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic has had a major impact on all economic, social, political and cultural activities of the daily life,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939715
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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961146
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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938214
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Reversing the resource curse : foreign corruption regulation and economic development
Christensen, Hans B.; Maffett, Mark; Rauter, Thomas - 2020
We examine the impact of foreign corruption regulation on economic development in highcorruption-risk areas. We find that, after a mid-2000s increase in enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), economic activity (measured by nighttime luminosity) in African communities within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013349794
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Exports and income distribution : is there a Kuznets curve?
Yuhn, Ky-hyang; Venturelli, Henry - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 4, pp. 1-22
This study investigates the effects of exports on income per capita using a panel data set of 150 countries from 1990 to 2012. We have found that exports have differing effects on income distribution depending on different phases of economic development. As exports (measured as the percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331922