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Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies
Beck, Thorsten; Laeven, Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, we offer a political … institution building, we also show the importance of institutions in explaining the variation in economic development and growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123823
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Follow the money : does the financial sector intermediate natural resource windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017 - This version: 18 February 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602734
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Follow the money : does the financial sector intermediate natural resource windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017 - This version: 18 February 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615740
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Follow the Money : Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960101
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Follow the Money : Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961953
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Follow the Money : Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962698
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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidencee
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277738
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Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidence
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281226
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Legal Institutions and Economic Development
Beck, Thorsten - In: The Oxford handbook of capitalism. 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012881984