quantitative analysis of mass privatization programs in the postcommunist world. We argue that rapid large-scale privatization … back on the enterprise sector, as the state can no longer support the institutions necessary for the effective functioning … implementation of mass privatization programs negatively impacts measures of economic growth, state capacity and the security of …

becomes eligible to be sold in a particular market. The World Trade Organization ruling on product standards requires member … product standards. Chapter 4 evaluates the growth experience of Mauritius in the light of the explanations put forward in the … empirical growth literature. As an African country Mauritius stands out as an exception, not only having a much higher growth …

responses as direct measures of institutional concepts and using those to analyze the effects of institutions at the firm level …-country variation in institutions. Essay 1 offers a simple conceptual framework that decomposes survey responses for each firm into the … variations have clearly different effects on growth of sales of firms. Essay 2 estimates the causal effects of economic shocks on …

institutions.There is widespread agreement among most economists on the positive reinforcing linkbetween innovation and growth …Development and growth are products of the interplay and interaction amongheterogeneous actors operating in specific … institutional settings. There is a much alluded-to,but under-investigated, link between economic growth, innovation systems, and …

policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 … discretionary fiscal policy, is negatively associated with economic growth. Third, there is no direct effect of cyclicality on … economic growth other than through output volatility. These findings advocate the introduction of fiscal rules that limit the …

This dissertation examines the role that institutions play in the existence of multiple equilibria in models of … multiple equilibria in a growth model with human capital externalities. I find that there are two equilibria, one a poverty … dissertation presents an empirical test for the role that human capital and institutions may play in transitions between equilibria …

Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and …

Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and …