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I'll pay you later : sustaining relationships under the threat of expropriation

Paltseva, Elena; Toews, Gerhard; Troya-Martinez, Marta - 2022

Contracts between governments and international firms are difficult to enforce, especially under weak institutions … institutions are indeed delayed relative to countries with strong institutions. To push for a causal interpretation, we show that … this backloading in countries with weak institutions only emerges in early 1970s. We attribute this to a change in the …

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Political competition and financial development : a test of two tales

Assefa, Dawit Z.; Iona, Alfonsina; Leonida, Leone - 2024 - This version: 23 September 2024

This paper examines the relationship between political competition and financial development across a global sample of 127 countries, with a particular focus on developed and democratic OECD countries. Building on the theoretical frameworks of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and Besley et al....

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Productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of Mexico

Baz, Verónica; Capelo, María Cristina; Centeno, Rodrigo; … - 2010

While Mexico has potential to grow rapidly, its economic growth has remained low for the past three decades. There is no consensus on the country s development path or on how to achieve specific goals. Since the policy debate remains ideological and lacks pragmatism, productive development...

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Institutional quality and fiscal transparency

Andreula, Nicoló; Chong, Alberto; Guillén, Jorge - 2009

fiscal transparency. It is shown that there is in fact a causal relationship between institutions and transparency. The …

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Robust institutions for sustainable water markets : a survey of the literature and the way forward

Maziotis, Alexandros; Calliari, Elisa; Myšiak, Jaroslav - 2013

This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional … highest priority is given to the role of legal and political institutions and second priority to environmental, economic and …

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Public-private collaboration on productive development policies in Argentina

Bisang, Roberto; González, Andrea; Hallak, Juan Carlos; … - 2014

This study discusses four cases of public-private collaboration (PPC) in the design and implementation of productive development policies (PDP) in Argentina. We find that PPCs have contributed to the success of most of the studied PDPs by facilitating information sharing and creating...

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Public-private collaboration on productive development policies in Costa Rica

Cornick, Jorge; Jimenez, Jorge; Román, Marcela - 2014

Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance: an autonomous institution in charge of policy for a particular economic sector is created, with a board of directors comprising representatives from both the public and...

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Institutions and the environment : existing evidence and future directions

Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica - 2016

institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the … relationship between institutions and various response variables related to environmental performance and environmental policy have …

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The political economy of productivity in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo; Melo, Marcus André … - 2010

This paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in … recent decades. Although political institutions provide the president with incentives and the instruments to pursue monetary …

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Is interregional AU-ASEAN diffusion in the south barren?

Kingah, Stephen; Akong, Charles - 2015

In a field dominated by a discourse that paints the European Union (EU) as a change agent providing initial stimuli, it is refreshing that the transmission or diffusion of norms, values, processes and institutional design is now being reported (albeit inchoately) in the cooperation of regional...

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