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There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to know how institutions change. This paper provides a...
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level property rights and three measures of diversity: ethnic, linguistic, and religious. Past studies have assumed a linear … relationship between various measures of diversity and economic outcomes, including property rights. The assumption of a linear … relationship suggests that the estimated effect of diversity on the outcome will be the same for any change in diversity …
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Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the … hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course …-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has …
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Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the … hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course …-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has …
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The interest in forests managed by communities has been increasing in recent decades, and it implied a relevant research agenda on community-based forest management institutions. This paper analyzes the process of institutional change, the property rights system and the governance mechanism in...
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La privatisation est au cœur des réformes structurelles pour les économies en transition. En théorie son principal objectif est de changer les structures de corporate governance dans le but d'améliorer l'efficience des entreprises. En théorie, l'adoption des institutions formelles de...
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This paper operates at the interface of the literature on the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on host countries, and the literature on the determinants of institutional quality. We argue that FDI contributes to economic development by improving institutional quality in the host country...
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