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Securing personal freedom through institutions: the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence
Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 49 (2020) 2, pp. 165-186
We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal freedom. While judicial … independence is positively and robustly related to personal freedom in all its forms, electoral democracy displays a robust …
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Economic freedom and income inequality: Does political regime matter?
Ahmad, Mahyudin - In: Economies 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-28
There is a growing literature studying the effects of economic freedom and democracy on income inequality; nevertheless … democracy is estimated. The findings demonstrate that economic freedom has positive effect on income inequality. The estimated …
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Central bank independence and democracy: Does transparency matter?
Fayed, Mona Esam; Ezzat, Asmaa Mohamed - In: Contemporary Economics 14 (2020) 2, pp. 90-111
CBI is the seemed contradiction between independence and democracy, known as the problem of accountability of the monetary … democracy. This would, in turn, attribute to reconciling the presumed contradiction between CBI and democracy, besides … disentangling the impact of independence and transparency on democracy. To this end, we regress democracy on both CBI and CB …
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Max Weber as a Political Economist
Janssen, Hauke - In: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 140 (2020) 2, pp. 143-176
Max Weber's path to economic science was impacted to a large degree by political motives. The question emerges how the depiction, which has been maintained by historians of economics, of Weber as a methodologist – who demands objectivity and value freedom in scientific analysis – is...
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Exporting democratic practices: Evidence from a village governance intervention in Eastern Congo
Humphreys, Macartan; de la Sierra, Raúl Sánchez; der … - In: Journal of Development Economics 140 (2019), pp. 279-301
We study a randomized Community Driven Reconstruction (CDR) intervention that provided two years of exposure to democratic practices in 1250 villages in eastern Congo. To assess its impact, we examine behavior in a village-level unconditional cash transfer project that distributed $1000 to 457...
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The construction of national identities
Almagro, Milena; Andrés-Cerezo, David - In: Theoretical Economics 15 (2020) 2, pp. 763-810
competition and the intergenerational transmission of identities within the family. We find nation-building efforts are generally …
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Potterian Economics
Levy, Daniel; Snir, Avichai - In: Oxford Open Economics 1 (2022), pp. 1-32
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study ‘Potterian economics’, the economic ideas, insights...
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Coordinates and Representations of Architecture for a Regional Cross-Border Development Strategy
Slusarciuc, Marcela - In: CES Working Papers 8 (2016) 1, pp. 182-196
The general objective of the wider research this paper is part of is to analyze in a multidisciplinary framework the economic development poles of the Romanian border areas and to identify the ways to building a viable strategy in a cross-border framework. One of the specific objectives is to...
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Macroeconomic determinants of renewable electricity technology adoption in Nigeria
Saibu, Olufemi Muibi; Omoju, Oluwasola E. - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 16 (2016) 1, pp. 65-83
Renewable electricity technology adoption is an essential part of the measures to mitigate climate change and promote sustainable development. This paper investigates the drivers of and barriers to renewable electricity technology adoption in Nigeria. Specifically, the factors that influence the...
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Energy Cooperation – The Strength of the EU's Economic Development
Ruggiero, Francesco; Vlad, Liviu Bogdan; Vlăsceanu, … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) 40, pp. 1080-1094
Continuous economic development of the European Union countries has reached a stage in which both intra- and inter-state cooperation together with the interaction of economic actors, have become biggest strength. The present paper analyze the level of cooperation between European Union countries...
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