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Institutional interactions and economic growth: The joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital

Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

distinguishing between institutional veto players (political institutions) and partisan veto players (fractionalization among …

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The formal-informal economy dualism in a retrospective of economic thought since the 1940s

Clement, Christine - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät … - 2015

Africa studies of Keith HART (1971) and the INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (1972), special emphasis will be given to the …

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De Jure and de Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...

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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by …

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Long Term Persistence

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions we test Putnam’s conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between the North and South of Italy were due to the culture of independence fostered by the free city-states...

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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2009

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by …

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Economic Development and the Death of the Free Market

Fix, Blair - 2020

societies changes with industrial development. I ﬁnd that as energy use increases, governments tend to get larger and the …

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재벌, 한국을 지배하는 초국적 자본

Park, Hyeng-Joon - 2013

이 책의 목적은 지금까지 주로 국가 대 시장, 국내산업자본 대 외국금융자본이라는 이분법적 틀에서 다루어져 왔던 한국사회의 포스트-1997 본성 논쟁에 새로운 시각을 제시하는 것이다. 이를 위해, 이 책은 조나단 닛잔과...

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The Implicit Theory of Historical Change in the work of Alan S. Milward

Lynch, Frances M. B.; Guirao, Fernando - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

on the ability of state institutions to respond to changing political demands from within each society. State … society was different there was no single model of development to be adopted or which could be imposed successfully by one … nation-state on others, either through force or through foreign aid programs. Nor could development be promoted simply by …

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Empowerment as a zero-sum game

Knack, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Empowerment of the poor does not necessarily make them better off – or make the non-poor worse off. In some cases, empowerment may be inefficient, i.e. a negative-sum game. In other cases, it is a zero-sum game, as the poor can benefit only at the expense of someone else. But in many cases, it...

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