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to be thought of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially … public institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this … qualité des institutions (notamment publiques) et le type de régime politique ou plus généralement le système de valeurs de la …
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institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …
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to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students … attitudes toward political and economic institutions. Our experiments employ widely used dictator and trust games, with four …. Experimental behavior and support for institutions differ substantially between and within groups. North Korean refugees prefer …
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …
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substantially during the last decades. At the same time, the quality of institutions in developing countries has also improved. The … findings indicate that emigration to institutionally developed countries induces a positive effect on home-country institutions. …
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This article gives an overview to the history of the Eurozone crisis, its immediate causes and the stabilization measures that have been taken so far. It sheds light on the current situation and its immense risks. The existing reform proposals are discussed and categorized. A future scenario...
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Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian...
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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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Although much attention is paid to the Caspian region with regard to energy issues, the domestic consequences of the region's resource production have so far constituted a neglected field of research. A systematic survey of the latest research trends in the economic and political causalities of...
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We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on novel databases and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional...
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