Transport in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- Railroad policy, finance, and expansion -- The direct gains from railroad freight services -- Railroad passenger benefits -- Railroads and Brazilian economic structure -- Dividing the surplus : subsidies, regulation, and profits

Natural Conditions and Foundation of the Chinese Economy -- Historical Development of Chinese Economy (Before 1949) -- Economic Development and Exploration of New China (1949-1978) -- Reform and Transformation of China’s Economy (after 1978) -- Economic and Social Development in China since...

The present paper develops a general production function framework, augmented with two institutional variables namely, bureaucracy and corruption, on 28 transition economies over the period 2000 to 2015. We use various econometric specifications and apply both the Fixed Effects as well as the...

To investigate the effects of the European Union's (EU) member nations' shared sovereignty on economic growth. The member nations have lost substantial political and economic independence (sovereignty) and democracy. Therefore, their governments cannot facilitate rapid economic growth in their...

This study investigates the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows using panel data for low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income countries for the sample period of 1996-2016 using the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The empirical results...