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Contracts do matter: robust evidence of an optimal level of legal formalism in developing countries
In: The journal of development studies, Band 53, Heft 10, S. 1663-1678
ISSN: 1743-9140
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Contracts Do Matter: Robust Evidence of an Optimal Level of Legal Formalism in Developing Countries
In: The journal of development studies, Band 53, Heft 10, S. 1663-1678
ISSN: 1743-9140
Democracy and institutions in postcolonial Africa
In: Journal of institutional economics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 207-231
ISSN: 1744-1382
AbstractAfrica has seen a steady rise in democracy since the end of the Cold War. This paper investigates two possible implications of democratization in African countries: better economic growth through improved institutions and less civil conflict through increased political participation. Instrumental variables regressions are estimated with the spatial lag of democracy. This instrument varies over time, allowing for consideration of country fixed effects in IV regressions. Large positive impacts of institutions on economic growth and of political participation on reducing civil conflict are found in IV regressions with fixed effects. Further estimates show that both growth and civil violence effects may be driven by civil liberties.
Contracts Do Matter: Robust Evidence of an Optimal Level of Legal Formalism in Developing Countries
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, S. 1-16
ISSN: 0022-0388
The Common Agricultural Policy and the EU budget: stasis or change?
[Abstract] After highlighting the budgetary context and the historical trends on the funding of the CAP, this paper considers contemporary debates about its reform in the context of two 'historic firsts'. Negotiations about the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2014-20 for the first time took place in tandem with a proposed CAP reform, within the broader context set by the financial crisis after 2008. Second, the CAP reform debates took place within the new institutional arrangements introduced in the Lisbon Treaty, which by extending the co-decision mechanism to the CAP potentially has increased the influence of the European Parliament (EP). Indeed the CAP reform dossiers were the first real test of these new arrangements and provide an insight into how the new institutional structure will work in practice. In both cases the paper highlights a continuing cleavage among member states and stakeholder interests - that maps partly onto a broader budgetary gainers/losers division - between advocates of radical reform (e.g. the UK, Sweden) and those who favour the retention of the traditional CAP (such as France, Spain and Ireland).
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Institutions Matter, but in Surprising Ways: New Evidence on Institutions in Africa
In: Kyklos: international review for social sciences, Band 64, Heft 1, S. 87-105
ISSN: 1467-6435
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Book Review: Frenchman into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 996-997
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
High-risk monkey business
In: Mother Jones: a magazine for the rest of US, Band 24, S. 50-55
ISSN: 0362-8841
Estimating the Effects of Democratization in African Countries: A Simultaneous Equations Approach
In: Economic Systems, Band 37, Heft 4
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Coconut production: present status and priorities for research
In: World Bank technical paper no. 136
Policy options in a small open economy: Canada during the great depression
In: Working papers in economic history
In: the Australian National University 60
Productivity and labour costs in the Ontario metal mining industry
In: Mineral policy background paper Nr 19