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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2014

We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that this threat is rendered less e_ective by distance from the seat of political power. We develop a...

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Connecting South and Southeast Asia: Implementation Challenges and Coordination

Thuzar, Moe; Mishra, Rahul; Hutchinson, Francis; Than, … - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2014

With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEAN's dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer connections between Southeast Asia and South Asia. The strategic positions of India, Myanmar, and...

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Influence of the corruption on the FDI level; case of Serbia.

Bazin, Damien; Danon, Marko - HAL - 2009

are focusing the institutional efficiency and institutions as regulating organisms. After presenting the theoretic …

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Une GPEC territoriale ? De l'outil de gestion à l'institutionnalisation d'une nouvelle forme de GRH

Everaere, Christophe; Glée, Catherine - HAL - 2014

Dans un contexte d'incertitudes économiques et de précarité de l'emploi, la GPEC territoriale, visant à anticiper et mutualiser les pratiques de GPEC entre différents acteurs socio-économiques d'un même bassin d'emploi, apparaît particulièrement opportune. Cependant, bâtir...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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The Technological Resilience of U.S. Cities

Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Rigby, David; Boschma, Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014

We study the resilience of cities by analyzing their relative capacity to sustain the production of technological knowledge in the face of adverse events. Using patent applications in 366 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States from 1975 to 2002, we analyze the vulnerability and...

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Institutions and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Kilishi, A. A.; Mobolaji, H. I.; Yaru, M. A.; Yakubu, A. T. - In: Journal of African Development 15 (2013) 2

There is growing emphasis on the role of institutions and governance on explaining Africa’s economic growth. However …, it is not clear which of the institutions matter most. Therefore ,the objective of this paper is to answer two separate … questions: (i) Do institutions rea lly matter in Sub-Saharan Africa?, (ii) If institutions matter, which of them matters most …

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Strategic Interaction and Institutional Quality Determinants of Environmental Regulations across Select OECD Countries

Galinato, Gregmar; Chouinard, Hayley - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

neighboring country regulations and measures of the quality of own and neighboring country government institutions. We apply a …. However, the higher the quality of government institutions in a country, the more stringent the implementation of regulations …

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Financial Development and the Diffusion of Technologies under Uncertainty in Africa

Chinzara, Zivanemoyo - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014

Using novel measures of technology diffusion and adoption developed by Comin and Hobijn (2012), we examine the role of finance in the timing of adoption and the diffusion of thirteen sectoral technologies in 44 Sub-Saharan Africa countries. These technologies cover sectors such as agriculture,...

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French Colonial Trade Patterns: European Settlement

Terra, Cristina; Kallab, Tania El - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2014

might have aected the French trade pattern with colonies: institutions and networking. We nd that better institutions …

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