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Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...
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Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and … refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-thefield experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …
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We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade … bureaucracy are the most likely reasons behind our findings. -- state ownership ; control ; corporate performance ; privatization …
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networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where …
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larger reform package of economic liberalisation in formerly overregulated economies, (b) as a reaction to an increasing …
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sector production. The model is calibrated to Egypt and used to study reforms such as reductions in energy subsidies with …
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During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
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This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After … defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform … industry-specific SOE reform trends as well as the latest reform developments. Until today, a stable, successful, longterm …
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This paper discusses several problems of direct popular decisions. In the first part, we consider problems related to the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and not if only occasional single questions are brought to a...
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High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This...
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