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The New Pragmatism, or economics and policy for the future

Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - In: Acta Oeconomica 64 (2014) June, pp. 139-160

Economics is not only a means of interpreting the past, but it must become an instrument for shaping the future, too. It should show inevitable future economic processes, with their links to culture, technology, and environment. With theoretical knowledge of this area, strategies of...

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Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization

Papaioannou, Elias; Siourounis, Gregorios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

relatively stable democracy to autocracy and 6 episodes of small improvements in representative institutions. We also classify …, trade openness and proxies of early institutions. …

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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …

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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper revisits and critically re-evaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that existing studies find support for this hypothesis because they fail to control for the presence...

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The Political Economy of Rural Property Rights and the Persistence of the Dual Economy

Fergusson, Leopoldo - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2012

conditions under which weak property rights institutions emerge, providing a specific mechanism for the endogenous persistence of … inefficient rural institutions as development unfolds. It also predicts a non-monotonic relationship between the quality of rural …

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Environmental impacts of green bonds in cross-countries analysis : a moderating effect of institutional quality

Ngoc Minh Nguyen; Nguyen Hanh Luu; Anh Hoang; Mai Thi … - In: Journal of financial economic policy 15 (2023) 4/5, pp. 313-336

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Non-trivial factors as determinants of the environmental taxation revenues in 27 EU countries

Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide; Smirnova, Janna - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20

The implementation of environmental taxation is one of the most important issues of environmental policy in Europe. To approach this matter, the paper aims to analyse the determinants of environmental taxation revenue for European countries. Besides investigating the most explored determinants,...

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Greenfield investments as a source of sustainable green finance? : on the relationships between greenfield investments, environmental performance, and asian economic growth

Nepal, Rabindra; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Musibau, Hameed - 2020

activities, and the role of institutions on the environment among Asian countries for the period 2000-2018. The Environmental … regions can be moderated by good regulation when good institutional factors are in place. Thus, greenfield investments in the … presence of supporting institutions can be a viable source of green finance. In addition, our results also support the …

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Public sector transparency and countries’ environmental performance: A nonparametric analysis

Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Based on the theoretical background of the link between countries’ transparency and environmental policy our paper provides empirical evidence for a sample of 68 countries for the time period of 2001-2010. By assuming that countries’ transparency levels shape their environmental policy which...

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Public sector transparency and countries’ environmental performance: A nonparametric analysis

Halkos, George E.; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. - In: Resource and Energy Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 19-37

Based on the theoretical background of the link between countries’ public sector transparency and environmental policy, our paper provides empirical evidence for a sample of 49 countries for the time period of 1995–2000. Assuming that countries’ environmental performance is a product of...

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