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role of institutions and macroeconomic policies in determining this sequence. We analyze the joint effect of policies and … institutions on the frequency of the four growth regimes: stable growth, stagnation, crisis and miracle-like fast growth. The … results confirm the importance of institutions for growth but also show that macro-policies; inflation, trade openness, size …
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Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse effects on economic growth. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth - controlling for effect type, data sources, and...
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We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
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This article aims to highlight the first work of economist Nathan Nunn on slavery and colonization. Indeed, for the latter, these two historical facts, quantifiable consequences, have defined the path of economic development of African countries. Secondly, this paper discusses the findings of...
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This paper compares more direct measures of the institutional environment with both the instability proxies used by Barro (1991) and the Gastil indices, by comparing their effects both on growth and private investment. The results provide substantial support for the position that the...
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, requiring cooperation and redistribution, call the international institutions to coordinate their action for harmonizing such …
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In a demand-side growth model we show that a developing economy may experience a steady positive equilibrium growth rate of investment and profit as long as– investment in the economy is responsive to the aspirations of the richer section of the population to match the consumption level of the...
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Previous research has established (i) that a country’s financial sector influence future economic growth and (ii) that stock market index returns affect future economic growth. We extend and tie together these two strands of the growth literature by analyzing the relationship between banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836488
Does culture, and in particular religion, exert an independent causal effect on long-term economic growth, or do culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
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Previous research has established (i) that a country’s financial sector influence future economic growth and (ii) that stock market index returns affect future economic growth. We extend and tie together these two strands of the growth literature by analyzing the relationship between banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259225