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Soft budget constraints and regional industrial policy : reinterpreting the rise and fall of De Lorean

Brownlow, Graham - 2014

The rise and fall of De Lorean Motor Cars Limited (DMCL) has been traditionally interpreted as the result either of John De Loreanś psychological flaws or as confirming the supposedly inherent weaknesses in activist industrial policy. However, when the episode is examined in more detail,...

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Soft budget constraints and regional industrial policy : reinterpreting the rise and fall of DeLorean

Brownlow, Graham - In: Cambridge journal of economics 40 (2016) 6, pp. 1497-1515

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Place-based industrial policies and local agglomeration in the long run

Incoronato, Lorenzo; Lattanzio, Salvatore - 2024

This paper studies a place-based industrial policy (PBIP) aiming to establish industrial clusters in Italy in the 1960s-70s. Combining historical archives spanning one century with administrative data and leveraging exogenous variation in government intervention, we investigate both the...

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Place-based industrial policies and local agglomeration in the long run

Incoronato, Lorenzo; Lattanzio, Salvatore - 2024

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A myth of soft budget constraints in socialist economies

Popov, Vladimir V. - 2020

Most of the time the budget constraints in the socialist economies were harder than in developing countries and no less hard than in developed countries. The soft budget constraints (SBC) in socialist economies were not pervasive, as most authors believe, but selective, i.e. involved...

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On the origin and composition of the German East-West population gap

Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018

The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...

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On the origin of the German East-West population gap

Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018

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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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Industrial policy in practice : Africa's Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils

Page, John M. - 2014

Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It finds that the councils...

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Institutions and Asia's development : the role of norms and organizational power

Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2018

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …

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