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Mladjan, Mrdjan M.; Nikolova, Elena; Ponomarenko, Olga - 2024

Institutions, defined as "the rules of the game in society", drive economic growth and prosperity. Institutions often … financial systems, contract enforcement) and informal (traditions, taboos, codes of conduct) institutions. Church …-state relationships hundreds of years ago affect informal institutions like work ethic, preferences for rationality or spirituality, and …

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Tolerable level of corruption for foreign direct investment in Europe and Asia

Abotsi, Anselm Komla - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 3, pp. 269-284

In 2009, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to developed countries experienced the largest decline among all regions and sub-regions. However, South, East and Southeast Asia showed the smallest decline among developing economies and remained the largest recipient of FDI inflows. Meanwhile,...

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How important are remittances to savings? : evidence from the Latin America and the Caribbean countries

Nnyanzi, John Bosco; Kilimani, Nicholas; Oryema, John Bosco - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-37

This paper investigates the direct and the indirect roles of migrant transfers in the saving behaviors of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries during the period 1997-2018. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) panel estimation technique, the results based on the Pooled Mean...

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Attached once, attached forever : the persistent effects of concertaje in Ecuador

Rivadeneira, Alex - 2024

This paper studies the long-run effects of concertaje, a forced labor system from the Spanish colonial era in Ecuador that coerced indigenous workers in rural estates after indebting them. I collected and digitized historical tax records (1800) and connected them to contemporary ones (2010s) via...

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Levelling up : the need for an institutionally coordinated approach to regional and national productivity

McCann, Philip - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 58 (2024) 5, pp. 1145-1156

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Forerunners vs. latecomers : institutional competition in the German federalism during the COVID crisis

Breide, Lukas; Budzinski, Oliver; Grebel, Thomas; … - 2023

The COVID pandemic caused the political competition between the prime ministers of the German states to reach its peak. Whoever is the best at announcing, launching, or implementing policies to combat the pandemic can hope to capitalize most politically. In this paper, we attempt to document...

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The determinants of innovation performance : an income-based cross-country comparative analysis using the Global Innovation Index (GII)

Bate, Adisu Fanta; Wachira, Esther Wanjiru; Danka, Sándor - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 12 (2023), pp. 1-27

Despite the dearth of research on innovation, the key determinants of innovation performance still need to be clarified. Besides, a comparative analysis of the determinants of innovation performance across countries at different income levels has yet to be found. This study, therefore, aims to...

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Thinking the urban impasse beyond lockdown : an afterword

Hentschel, Christine - In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 115 (2024) 2, pp. 262-266

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Do environmental policies affect MNEs' foreign subsidiary investments? : an empirical investigation

Zilja, Flladina; Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi - In: Management international review : MIR ; journal of … 62 (2022) 1, pp. 53-102

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Subsidies and MNE investment location choices : unravelling the effects of firm specificity and immediacy

Mayer, Pascal - In: Transnational corporations : investment and development 30 (2023) 3, pp. 29-58

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