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Mantzavinos, C. - 2016

This overview paper introduces some basic concepts of New Institutional Economics like the conceptualization of institutions as the rules of the game and then focuses on the two basic mechanisms of emergence and evolution of social institutions, i.e. as a product of collective action or as a...

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Actors, decision-making, and institutions in quantitative system modelling

De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; … - 2017

Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...

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Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change

Bennett, Daniel L.; Bjørnskov, Christian; Gohmann, … - 2019

types of regime transitions. We hypothesize that when coups are conducted by members of the incumbent political elite, they … are likely to remove barriers to change while coup makers outside of the ruling elite are more likely to do the opposite … and thus protect themselves from what remains of the elite in the political system. Using the Bjørnskov-Rode coup data …

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Reform paths and institutional resilience

Buchen, Clemens - 2021

Broadly speaking, institutional reformers decide about the sequencing of types of reforms, either addressing institutional quality or macroeconomic stability. This paper develops a dynamic population game, in which agents play a simple anonymous-exchange game of cooperating or defecting. Agents...

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The institutional origins of statek-society relations

Sabry, Mohamed Ismail - In: Fulbright review of economics and policy 2 (2022) 2, pp. 161-183

Purpose: This paper investigates the factors responsible for the emergence of different arrangements of state-society relations. Being concerned with the relations related to the industrial sector, this study focuses more on state-business-labor relations (SBLRs), especially on power dynamics...

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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to...

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The EU anchor thesis: transition from socialism, the institutional vacuum and membership in the European Union

Campos, Nauro - 2021

One of the strongest stylized facts of the transition is also one of the most unexpected: after 1989 Central and Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis posits that the prospect of membership in the European...

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Institutional Framework and Poverty : A Transition Economy Perspective

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2021

This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320747

Institutional Development and Foreign Banks in Chile

Du, Brian - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of foreign banks on developing countries' bank performance. We study this relationship from a different perspective by focusing on Chile, an emerging market with strong institutions. The results from dynamic panel regressions on hand-collected financial statement...

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Institutional Development and Economic Growth

Lal, Deepak - 2000

This paper surveys the role of institutions in promoting economic growth in cross-cultural and historical perspective. It examines inter alia, whether institutional development can be incorporated in formal growth theory, the influence of politics on economic growth and the relationship of...

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