Search Results - subject:"Fractionalization"

Fractionalization and trust in India: A field-experiment

Chuah, Swee-Hoon; Fahoum, Reema; Hoffmann, Robert - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 191-194

Is India’s high fractionalization associated with mistrust between its two main religious communities? An inter …

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War signals : a theory of trade, trust, and conflict

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: The review of economic studies 80 (2013) 3, pp. 1114-1147

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Connecting corruption to ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization

Nissan, Edward; Naghshpour, Shahdad - In: Journal of economic studies 40 (2013) 6, pp. 763-774

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Identity and redistribution

Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert - In: Public choice 155 (2013) 3/4, pp. 469-491

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Social capability, history and the economies of Communist and post-Communist states

Iliev, Peter; Putterman, Louis - 2005

fractionalization, which is correlated with late pre-modern development, shows harmful effects in the transition era but not under …

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Fractionalization Effect and Government Financing

Berument, Hakan; Heckelman, Jac C. - In: The International Journal of Applied Economics 2 (2005) 1, pp. 37-49

governments are associated with higher government deficits. In this paper, we test the implication of a fractionalization effect … relationship between the degree of fractionalization and seigniorage revenue. Our results also suggest that creation of seigniorage …

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Why Do Some Countries Manage to Extract Growth From Foreign Aid?

Ruhashyankiko, Jean-François - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Aid is primarily given to governments whereas the engine of sustained growth is the private sector. It is therefore illusory to investigate the impact of aid on growth without considering the impact of government interventions on the private sector. The model shows how these interventions...

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Social Composition, Social Conflict, and Economic Development

Strulik, Holger - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2005

society at peace economic growth may occur. Growth, however, is decreasing in the degree of social fractionalization and …

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Does Human Generate Social and Institutional Capital? Exploring Evidence from Time Series Data in a Middle Income Country

Fedderke, Johannes; Luiz, John - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2005

This paper presents an analysis of the interaction of human capital investment and the development of social and political institutions. We find that human capital matters - for growth through its quality dimension; for distributional conflict by raising political aspirations. But human capital...

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Taking care of your own: ethnic and religious heterogeneity and income inequality

Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Lambert, Peter J. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) 3, pp. 290-313

and redistribution in the study are ethnic and religious polarization and fractionalization measures. Findings – It is … found that inequality is positively associated with polarization and has an inverse-U relationship with fractionalization …

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