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Treisman, Daniel - 2010

transition can be parsimoniously explained by two variables: the length of time the country spent under a communist regime and …

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Democracy and aid donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018 - This version: September 2018

Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...

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Democracy and aid donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018

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On the Institutional Legacy of Mercantilist and Imperialist Colonialism

Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

The article features a temporal approach to modelling the social impact of Western colonialism. We collect a data set for all former colonies and dependencies that are regarded as countries today (143 observations). Our data, as well as existing theory, suggest that the very heterogeneous era of...

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The Gravity of Institutions

Duc, Cindy; Lavallee, Emmanuelle; Siroen, Jean-Marc - In: Economie Internationale (2008) 113, pp. 95-113

Do good institutions foster trade? Many trade agreements, and notably those of the European Union, introduce … institutional provisions in addition to strictly free-trade measures. In this article, we are interested in the influence of … democracy and the fight against corruption on trade. We use a gravity model inspired and adapted from Anderson and van Wincoop …

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Measuring the FDI attractiveness in the EAP countries from an institutional perspective

Sorcaru, Sergiu Lucian; Nuta, Florian Marcel; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 6, pp. 1019-1041

Countries in the European Union's neighborhood, such as those in the Eastern Partnership (EaP), have a particular interest in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) because investment inflows can guarantee them a number of advantages needed for accession. This paper proposes a comparative...

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Measuring the FDI attractiveness in the EAP countries from an institutional perspective

Sorcaru, Sergiu Lucian; Nuta, Florian Marcel; … - In: Journal of Business Economics and Management (JBEM) 24 (2023) 6, pp. 1019-1041

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THE CAPITALIST STATE AND ITS ECONOMY; DEMOCRACY IN SOCIALISM

Zarembka, Paul (contributor) - Department of Economics, State University of New …

[Part I] The leading part of this volume focuses on the role of the state in capitalist society, beginning by showing the welfare state as an historical product of the class structure of English agrarian capitalism. The second chapter indicates how, in European colonies such as in Africa,...

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Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion?

Cooray, Arusha; Potrafke, Niklas - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2010

We investigate empirically whether political institutions or culture and religion underlie gender inequality in education. The dataset contains up to 157 countries over the 1991-2006 period. The results indicate that political institutions do not significantly influence education of girls:...

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COVID-19 and conflict : major risks and policy responses

Rohner, Dominic - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 26 (2020) 3, pp. 1-6

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