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institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies …
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constraints on productive entrepreneurship would require that the decline in level-two institutions, such as democracy and science …We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies …
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In his recent paper in JET, Gonzalez (2007) issues a warning that gradual improvement in property rights enforcement may sometimes backfire and hurt social welfare through its unintended instigation of appropriative activities. By introducing a new property-rights parameter within the...
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A fundamental requirement of market economies is the security of ownership claims to property. Yet history is littered with cases of challenges to these claims. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted...
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We extend the model of insecure property rights by Tornell and Velasco (1992) and Tornell and Lane (1999) by adding three features: (i) extracting the common property asset involves a private appropriation cost, (ii) agents derive utility from wealth as well as from consumption, and (iii) agents...
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This paper studies whether institutions matter for economic performance. For this aim, we first construct a simple … framework illustrating how to examine the interaction between institutions and economic performance from a different point of … interaction between institutions and economic performance in Turkey. Co-integration analysis finds a long-run relationship between …
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explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political institutions, financial integration, financial development …
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of institutions. These results are confirmed with both annual data and five year average data. …
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, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial … unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …
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