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Long-term growth prospects for the Russian economy

Beck, Roland; Kamps, Annette; Mileva, Elitza - 2007

This paper provides an assessment of Russia's long-term growth prospects. In particular, it addresses the question of the medium- and long-term sustainability of the country's currently high growth rates. Starting from the notion that Russia's fast economic expansion in recent years has...

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Legal conflicts of interest of the revolving door

Brezis, Elise S. - 2017

This paper analyzes the conflicts of interest arising from the "revolving door". The revolving door is a common phenomenon, and it is unlikely that most of it can be explained by "regulatory capture", a practice that is unlawful. Therefore, there is a need for a new framework. This paper...

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Real convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe

Żuk, Piotr; Savelin, Li - 2018

This paper analyses real income convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) to the most advanced EU economies between 2000 and 2016. The relevance of this topic stems both from the far-reaching implications of real income convergence for economic welfare and the importance...

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Structural reform waves and economic growth

Marrazzo, Pasquale Marco; Terzi, Alessio - 2017

At a time of slow growth in several advanced and emerging countries, calls for more structural reforms are multiplying. However, estimations of the short- and medium-term impact of these reforms on GDP growth remain methodologically problematic and still highly controversial. We contribute to...

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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?

Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019

of political institutions in mediating the corruption-growth relationship using panel data over one hundred countries for …

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An empirical analysis of state fragility and growth : the impact of state ineffectiveness and political violence

Ferreira, Ines A. - 2018

The role of the state in promoting development is well established in the institutional economics literature. Yet, in recent decades the attention has been turned to the opposite side of the spectrum. Facing high levels of poverty and showing a slower progress in achieving development outcomes,...

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Impact of economic freedom on the growth rate : a panel data analysis

Hussain, Mohammed Ershad; Haque, Mahfuzul - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-15

This study looks at some non-conventional determinants of economic growth, with the help of the newly developed economic freedom index datasets of the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal(HF/WSJ), which is a cumulative index derived from several sub-indices (trade freedom index, financial...

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Re-examining the middle-income trap hypothesis : what to reject and what to revive?

Han, Xuehui; Wei, Shang-jin - 2015

Why do some economies grow faster than others? Do economies in the middle-income range face especially difficult challenges producing consistent growth? Using a transition matrix analysis on decade-level growth rates, we find that the data clearly reject the idea that middle-income economies...

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Institutional hierarchies and economic growth : a bundled approach

Helfer, Helena - 2022

Theoretical and empirical evidence on the relationship between institutions and economic prosperity remains ambiguous … bundled approach for measuring institutions. This approach takes into account interrelations in form of hierarchies between … political, economic and the societal institutions and thereby adds to the literature that deals with the mechanisms of economic …

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Financial development, institutional quality and economic growth : evidence from ECOWAS countries

Appiah, Michael; Li, Fanglin; Frowne, Doreen Idan - In: Organizations and markets in emerging economies 11 (2020) 1, pp. 6-17

Most of the literature that explored the relationship between financial development and economic growth taking into consideration the roles played by institutional quality in the ECOWAS region still debates on the roles of institutional quality on economic growth. This study used data from...

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