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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2012

Social and cultural determinants of economic institutions and outcomes have come to the forefront of economic research. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional quality in the form of property rights and the rule of...

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Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal Aspects

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2009

This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO adjudicating bodies have said little of more general...

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Social Trust and Central-Bank Independence

Berggren, Niclas; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Hellström, Jörgen - 2012

Central banks have been made more independent in many countries. A common rationale has been the existence of a credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social trust and central-bank independence. Our empirical...

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Globalization and Absolute Poverty: A Panel Data Study

Bergh, Andreas; Nilsson, Therese - 2011

Using panel data from more than 100 countries around the world from 1988 through 2007, this paper examines the … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and …

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Is Tolerance Good or Bad for Growth?

Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - 2010

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We …

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The International Mobility of the Super-Rich

Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

Relying on Forbes Magazine annual rankings for two decades, 1625 billionaires and their countries of birth and residence are identified, most of whom are self-made entrepreneurs. 13 percent of billionaires reside in a country other than that of their birth. Migration is linked to distance, to...

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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research

Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...

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The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Krusell, Per - 2010

general equilibrium model of the world which has externalities: each country invests in TFP and internalizes the dynamic … effects of its own investment, while treating other countries' investments as given. Average world growth is endogenous, as is …-run differences in TFP levels and that, in the long run, the world distribution of TFP across countries may be asymmetric, i.e., twin …

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Common Trends and Shocks to Top Incomes: A Structural Breaks Approach

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2009

In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over the twentieth century. By using the most re-cent structural breaks techniques, our approach both confirms previous notions and offers new insights. In particular, the division...

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Every Man for Himself! Gender, Norms and Survival in Maritime Disasters

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - 2012

Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of 'women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning...

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