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Development of formal and informal institutions in the Czech Republic and other new EU member states before their EU entry : did the EU pressure have impact?

Geršl, Adam - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 15 (2006) 1, pp. 78-90

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...

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Entrepreneurship, institutions and skills in low-income countries

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...

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Budget institutions and government effectiveness

Dahan, Momi; Strawczynski, Michel - 2016

Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than in others? Employing an original panel dataset that spans four different years (1991, 2003, 2007 and 2012) we find that budget centralization has a negative and significant...

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Institutional architecture for financing Pan-Asian infrastructure connectivity

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2017

Asia, particularly its major economies has witnessed slower growth in recent years. To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks to recover from the falling growth, most regional economies need to rebalance their export-oriented (mostly to advanced economies)...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...

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Spillover effects of institutions on cooperative behavior, preferences, and beliefs

Engl, Florian; Riedl, Arno; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior in one domain affects behavior in another domain and whether it … whether, for only one game, there is an institution enforcing cooperation and vary also whether the institution is imposed … exogenously or arises endogenously through voting. Our results show that the presence of an institution in one game generally …

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Global evidence on the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19

Gozgor, Giray - 2020

Using the Worldwide COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs dataset covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19. It is found that older and healthy people trust more to their governments. Education is negatively...

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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020

Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...

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Perception vs. experience : explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata

Gutmann, Jerg; Padovano, Fabio; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156444

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