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Protests and Beliefs in Social Coordination in Africa
Sangnier, Marc; Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2013
aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … coordination strongly evolve after riots, together with trust in leaders. As no signs of social unrest can be recorded before, the … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933911
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Deep economic integration and state capacity: A mechanism for avoiding the middle-income trap?
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro F. - 2018
Exiting the middle-income trap entails costly improvements in state capacity. That deep economic integration induces powerful actors to support increasing state capacities remain underresearched. Here we ask: Under what conditions can deep economic integration yield increases in state capacity?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064709
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278593
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazil’s Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807415
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Deep economic integration and state capacity : a mechanism for avoiding the middle-income trap?
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018
Exiting the middle-income trap entails costly improvements in state capacity. That deep economic integration induces powerful actors to support increasing state capacities remain underresearched. Here we ask: Under what conditions can deep economic integration yield increases in state capacity?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865849
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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283566
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Access to justice and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazil’s Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276061
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Trust, Corruption, Bribes and Economic Development in Central and Eastern European Countries
Voda, Ana Iolanda; Tiganas, Claudiu; Filipeanu, Dumitru - In: CES Working Papers 5 (2013) 4, pp. 654-662
European area as far as informal institutions are concerned; moreover, the analysis conducted confirms the existence of a … significant relation between the level of development and the structure of informal arrangements such as: trust level, bribe …
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A theory of destructive entrepreneurship
Desai, Sameeksha; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2007
Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the crea-tion of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
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The role of social capital in competition and gendermatching environments : evidence from East Asian countries
Cho, Seo-Young - 2017
results highlight that a higher level of trust in school promotes one's competition, participation, and motivation in math …. However, this positive effect of trust maintains mainly in mixed-sex environments but not in single-sex competitions. The … trust effect is exhausted in gender-matching environments, probably because single-sex matches reduce unfairness caused by …
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