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expropriation. In a dynamic setting, market payoffs may induce sufficient inequality in next period's endowments for markets to … alternate with expropriation in a limit cycle, decreasing efficiency and amplifying macroeconomic fluctuations. Long run …
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or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …
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degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and political power in accounting for how fundamental economic institutions … evolved over time. We argue, moreover, that the roots of these disparities in the extent of inequality lay in differences in … with more extreme inequality or heterogeneity in the population were more likely to develop institutional structures that …
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expropriation in a limit cycle, decreasing efficiency and amplifying macroeconomic fluctuations. … respect to coalitional expropriation. More equally distributed power and higher congruence of land and power favor stable …
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We examine a panel of 70 countries during 1966-2010 and utilize Reinhart and Rogoff crisis dates to estimate the effects of crises on the size and scope of government over both 5-year and 10-year horizons. We also estimate cross section regressions using 40-year (1970-2010) changes in government...
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Economists have a long argue that political process such as democracy and corruption are important for economic growth. Our objective in this paper is to demonstrate that one of democracy's indirect posititive effects is its ability to mitigate the negative effect of corruption on economic...
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This paper investigates the relationship between institutional quality and economic performance the 32 Mexican states over the period 2003 -- 2010. Using dynamic panel GMM estimation and the Fraser Institutes index of economic freedom, I find that freedom has an ambiguous impact on economic...
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The object of analysis is a state as a distributed system of decision making and the subject of analysis is its dysfunction as a result of action of institutional factors, in particular, corruption as an informal negative institute. The obtained results provide grounds for doubts in positive...
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Although there is still no consensus on the causes of large differences in income per capita across countries, a growing literature considers culturally-based beliefs and institutions as main drivers of the latter differences (Guiso et al. 2006; Tabellini 2010). The intuition is that institutions...
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