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The Devil is in the Shadow : Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or Only Official Income and Official Productivity?
Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316690
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Corruption and Economic Growth : New Empirical Evidence
Gründler, Klaus - 2019
The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not comparable over time. The CPI is comparable over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861457
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Hoarding of International Reserves : Mrs Machlup's Wardrobe and the Joneses
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Qian, Xingwang - 2021
crisis period. Individual economy estimation results, however, show that the Joneses effect varies across economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316903
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Can Institutional Transplants Work? A Reassessment of the Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2021
The institutional reforms France imposed in the parts of Germany it occupied in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are claimed to provide an example of successful externally-imposed institutional reforms. The most detailed study is that of Lecce and Ogliari (2019), who argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324219
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245626
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The Socio-Economics of Pandemics Policy
Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world have provided a massive fiscal and monetary stimulus … selfish individuals and more on the mobilization of people's prosocial motives. Finally, to encourage people around the world … encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, with the aid of two powerful tools that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832196
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The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms’ Offshoring Decisions
Moriconi, Simone - 2019
The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms’ potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892039
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Slavery, Corruption, and Institutions
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
We develop a model where firms profit from coercing workers into employment under conditions violating national law and international conventions and where bureaucrats benefit from accepting bribes from detected perpetrators. Firms and bureaucrats are heterogeneous. Employers differ in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859047
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Vat Compliance, Trade, and Institutions
Morrow, Peter - 2019
We develop a simple structural model of value added tax (VAT) compliance, and estimate it using widely available national accounts data to learn about compliance in countries where little is currently known. International border controls improve VAT compliance, generating a correlation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864936
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Efficiency of Universities and Research-Focused Institutions Worldwide : An Empirical DEA Investigation Based on Institutional Publication Numbers and Estimated Academic Staff Numbers
Bornmann, Lutz - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit's available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem...
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