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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167200
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Economic Development: Is Social Capital Persistent?
Rakesh Gupta N.R. - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015
contributes to revisiting questions of economic performance, social capital and institutions with a clearly better and updated … overarching definitions of social capital, along with institutions, inequality, and education are consistently significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194462
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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring
Acemoglu, Daron; Hassan, Tarek; Tahoun, Ahmed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
. According to our preferred interpretation, these events provide evidence that, under weak institutions, popular mobilization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083238
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Trust, Growth and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various … institutions and policies can affect trust and promote pro-social behaviors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084699
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Testing a Neoclassical Growth Model with the Institution Effect of Government Size Using Panel Data : Is the Economic Success of Nordic Countries Due to Welfare State?
Ding, Hong - 2014
This paper develops and tests a Neoclassical growth model with the institution effect of government size in the framework of a dynamic panel data model, using two Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators to address endogeneity of explanatory variables in estimation. I find a robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039621
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The rise, fall and revival of the Swedish welfare state : what are the policy lessons from Sweden?
Bergh, Andreas - 2011
exceptionalism: Sweden became rich because of well-functioning capitalist institutions, and inequality was low before the expansion … state ; equality ; growth ; institutions ; capitalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012602
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DECENTRALIZATION, GROWTH AND OPTIMAL GOVERNMENT SIZE IN THE ITALIAN REGIONAL FRAMEWORK
Liddo, Giuseppe Di; Magazzino, Cosimo; Porcelli, Francesco - Centro di Ricerca sull'Economia delle Istituzioni … - 2015
The aim of this study is to empirically assess the existence of the BARS curve (Barro, Armey, Rahn, and Scully), as well as the relationship between public expenditure and decentralization, for Italian regions in the 1997-2009 period. Using panel data methodologies, we inspect the nexus between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272032
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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America
Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - 2007
sensitive to political institutions. We find two stark differences between democratic and autocratic growth: (1) democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050291
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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America
Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2007
sensitive to political institutions. We find two stark differences between democratic and autocratic growth: (1) democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738235
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Resilience to crisis through social protection: Can we build the case?
Roca, Thomas; Ferrer, Hélène - 2016
hardships? The recent crisis has brought these questions to the forefront of the discussions among development institutions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653909