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Chile, as most Latin American countries, inherited the language, religion, and the institutions from 16th century … Spanish conquerors. Most institutions have not changed since. This paper examines the institutional and economic structure of … they operate, (3) the improve of competition policy institutions, (4) the improvement of consumer rights protection, and (5 …
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's institutions ('rules of the game'). Two stylized institutional variants of market selection and one of government selection are …
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Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance …. This paper analyzes five cases of co-governance: tourism, fisheries, rice, coffee, and the attraction of foreign direct … investment (FDI). When co-governance has been used in conjunction with market discipline and as a means to discover and remove …
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promoting a country's long-run development objectives. Devising sound industrial policy institutions emerges as a key policy …
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This paper explores the development of public sector capabilities for Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica through four case studies of successful experiences, with less successful cases presented as counterfactuals. To some extent the paper tests the Technical, Organizational and...
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The paper aims to show some of the complex relationships between institutions and industrial policies. Institutions are …
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Productivity growth has long been associated with, among others, contestability of markets which, in turn, is dependent on the ease with which potential competitors to the incumbent firms can enter the product market. There is a growing consensus that in emerging markets regulatory and...
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It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored...
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