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Polycentric governance in collusive agreements
Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2024
widely examined. However, the interplay between the involved firms in a collusive agreement, i.e., the governance dimension … paper empirically reveals that polycentric structures within the cartel governance may contribute to longer duration and … aspects: The entangled governance structures of collusive undertakings as well as the relevance of polycentricity in the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481223
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Networks of micro and small enterprise banks : a contribution to financial sector development
Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Von Pischke, John D. - 2005 - This version March 2005 (with updated figures)
The paper is a follow-up to an article published in Technique Financière et Developpement in 2000 (see the appendix to the hardcopy version), which portrayed the first results of a new strategy in the field of development finance implemented in South-East Europe. This strategy consists in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764766
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Foreign Aid, Institutional Quality, and Growth
Young, Andrew T. - 2014
Using a panel of up to 116 countries from 1970-2010 we estimate the effects of foreign aid flows on a variety of measures of institutional quality. We find that aid flows are associated with the deterioration of both political and economic institutions. Regarding the latter, aid flows are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066104
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Self-employment, wage employment and informality in a developing economy
Bennett, John; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2012
We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534099
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Risk attitudes and informal employment in a developing economy
Bennett, John; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 1 (2012), pp. 1-17
We model an urban labour market in a developing economy, incorporating workers’ risk attitudes. Trade-offs between risk aversion and ability determine worker allocation across formal and informal wage employment, and voluntary and involuntary self employment. Greater risk of informal wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725361
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Labour Market Failure, Capital Accumulation, Growth and Poverty Dynamics in Partially Formalised Economies : Why Developing Countries’ Growth Patterns are Different
Loewenstein, Wilhelm - 2017
The assumption of perfectly functioning labour markets is ubiquitous in growth theory, yet incompatible with equally ubiquitous poverty in developing countries' informal sectors. We argue that developing countries and high-income countries differ as in the former, induced by informal sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949535
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Self-Employment, Wage Employment and Informality in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John - 2012
We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108903
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Import tariffs enforcement with low administrative capacity
Tonin, Mirco - 2010
Import tariff receipts represent an important share of government revenues in many developing countries and there has recently been a surge in empirical studies showing how evasion in this field is a pervasive phenomenon. In the case of import tariffs, the tax base is the product of quantity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699856
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How and How Far to Liberalize a Small Open Economy with Informal Sectors and a Non-Traded Intermediary
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2002
Whether a liberalizing developing economy should implement the entire WTO-prescribed package and to what extent this is expedient, are the two burning questions, especially because available empirical evidence suggests that the developing countries have been facing substantial adjustment costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112850
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How and How Far to Liberalize a Developing Economy with Informal Sector and Factor Market Distortions
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2003
Whether a liberalizing developing economy should implement the entire WTO-prescribed package and to what extent this is expedient, are the two burning questions, especially because available empirical evidence suggests that the developing countries have been facing substantial adjustment costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075759