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Growing Justice : Justice Policies and Transaction Costs

Barendrecht, Maurits - 2015

This paper reviews the literature on policies aiming to improve the rule of law and the operation of a legal system. It takes a bottom up perspective of clients seeking access to justice and uses transaction costs on the market for justice as a criterion to evaluate justice policies. Most...

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Social capital as a containment factor of the COVID-19 pandemic

Nikishina, Elena N.; Korobkova, Natalia Y. - In: Population and economics : PE 6 (2022) 4, pp. 62-82

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Can War Foster Institutional Change?

O'Reilly, Colin - 2018

Exposure to violent conflict increases prosocial behavior, which is a form of social capital or informal institutions …. This article studies whether these changes to informal institutions map into change to formal institutions, and if this … mapping is characterized by substitutability or complementarity between institutions. To test this hypothesis, we use the …

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The Value of Names - Civil Society, Information, and Governing Multinationals on the Global Periphery

Kreitmeir, David; Lane, Nathan; Raschky, Paul - 2021

Civil society plays a crucial role in governance where laws and authority are weak. Increasingly, multinationals operate in these complex environments. We study how a key strategy of international civil society--disseminating information about human rights abuse--impacts multinationals. To do...

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Empowering homes? : unravelling the connection between energy efficiency and well-being

Estévez, Andrés; Tovar Reaños, Miguel Angel - 2024

We study how residential energy efficiency impacts well-being. We propose an innovative framework to assess the effects of investments in energy efficiency through the lens of energy poverty experiences. Leveraging a novel micro-level dataset of Irish households' and buildings' characteristics,...

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Economic Shocks, Civil War and Ethnicity

Janus, Thorsten - 2015

Using a novel cross-country panel dataset, we show that commodity terms of trade declines cause civil war in countries with intermediate ethnic diversity. The civil war effects for highly diverse or homogenous societies are negative and insignificant. Since the size of the largest ethnic group...

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Oil Price Shocks, Protest and the Shadow Economy : Is there a Mitigation Effect?

Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020

In this paper, we study the impact of exogenous variations of international oil prices on the incidence of protest, while exploring the role of the shadow economy as a mitigating factor. We find that oil price shocks are negatively associated with protests, but the effect is less severe the...

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The Impact of Armed Conflict on Firms' Performance and Perceptions

Petracco, Carly - 2012

This study is the first to explore the short-run impact of armed conflict on firms' performance and their perceptions of the business environment. We focus on the August 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia and use the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey data before and...

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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Frontier rule and conflict

Malik, Muhammad Adeel; Ali Mirza, Rinchan; Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2023

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

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