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Machine Learning Indices, Political Institutions, and Economic Development
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2018
creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815823
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Income, democracy, and critical junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012
institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291403
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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532389
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581963
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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472013
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Should we care (more) about data aggregation? : evidence from the democracy-growth-nexus
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices. We observe that most of the available aggregation techniques produce indices that are often too favorable for autocratic regimes and too unfavorable for democratic regimes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966711
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
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Machine learning indices, political institutions, and economic development
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2018
creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804191
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How does democracy cause growth?
Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Eberhardt, Markus - 2023 - This version: July 6th, 2023
institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and … opportunities as well as the distribution of political power shaped by underlying institutions, in combination with the extent of … selection into institutional change, and run horse races between underlying institutions. We find that freedom of expression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334859
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Income and Democracy
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the political economy literature that higher income per capita causes democracy. Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not typically control for factors that simultaneously affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666490