Showing papers in "Journal of Comparative Economics in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a methodology similar to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) to construct composite indicators of what they call Informational Transparency, and Accountability.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether globalization induces parents to want to instill tolerance in their children, the main idea being that this would equip the latter for greater success in a more integrated world, and they found that globalization enhances the willingness to transmit such social values More precisely, economic and social, but not political, globalization has this effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present theory and evidence from highly disaggregated Chinese data that tighter credit constrains force firms to produce lower quality products when faced with tighter credit constraints.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that social interaction alone positively affects household stock market participation, but Internet access mitigates the influence of social interaction, which supports the substitution between Internet access and social interaction as information channels.

TL;DR: The state-space framework extends the methodology of the Worldwide Governance Indicators to fully make use of the time-structure present in corruption data using a Bayesian Gibbs sampler algorithm.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the impact of foreign demand on Chinese employment creation by extending the global input-output methodology introduced by Johnson and Noguera (2012) and found that between 1995 and 2001, fast growth in foreign demand was offset by strong increases in labor productivity and the net effect on employment was nil.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use spatial regression discontinuity to examine which empire effects are persistent and find that differences in incomes, industrial production, education, corruption, and trust in government institutions disappeared with time as they were smoothed by economic forces and policy intervention.

TL;DR: The authors used surveys of company managers to measure the size of a shadow economy, based on the premise that company managers are the most likely to know how much business income and wages go unreported due to their unique position in dealing with both of these types of income.

TL;DR: This paper derived a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compared its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality and poverty, finding that wealth inequality has a negative relationship with economic growth, but when controlling for the fact that some billionaires acquired wealth through political connections, the relationship between politically connected wealth inequality and economic growth is negative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether changes in relative material standards of living between the SCs/STs and upper castes were associated with changes in the incidence of crimes against SCs and STs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an accounting framework and a detailed estimation procedure that separately accounts for the production and trade activities of FIEs and Chinese-owned enterprises (COEs), in addition to processing and normal exports.

TL;DR: This paper found that severe government expropriation in the form of higher informal levies, extralegal payments, and entertainment fees causes firms to diversify in emerging economies, in contrast to the practices in developed economies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of regional corruption on the management quality of firms within the manufacturing sector in Central and Eastern Europe and find that firms in more corrupt regions tend to have lower management quality, more centralized decision-making process and lower level of education of administrative workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Bayesian Model Averaging approach was used to investigate the relationship between economic growth and fiscal federalism. But the results from a sample of 23 OECD countries over 1975-2000 indicate that after controlling for unobserved country heterogeneity, there is no robust link, neither positive, nor negative, between output growth and federalism, measured as sub-national governments' share of own source tax revenue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the economic implications of demographic age structure in the context of regional development in China and extended the development accounting framework by incorporating age structure and applied it to a panel data set of 28 Chinese provinces.

TL;DR: In this article, a unified value chain framework is proposed to analyze firms' production and export performances along the value chain and document the following patterns: (1) Both start-up capital stock and the annual investment expenses are higher for upstream firms, which makes the upstream firms more capital intensive.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between incarceration rates and legal origins in a large cross-section of countries and found that legal origins alter the relative costs associated with imprisonment as a means for social control.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether the timing of elections affects the incumbent government's efforts to control corruption, and find that scheduled elections are associated with an increase in the number of corruption cases registered by the respective state's anti-corruption agencies, although the substantive impact is small.

TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of income inequality on the structure of tax policies and found that more unequal economies rely heavier on capital relative to labor income taxation, and that the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is robust.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study barriers to labor mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia in 1996-2010 and find a non-monotonic relationship between income and migration.

TL;DR: In this article, a global macro model comprising 43 countries and covering the period from Q1 1995 to Q4 2011 was proposed to assess the spatial propagation and the time profile of foreign shocks to the region.

TL;DR: The authors examined the patterns of job flows in China between 1998 and 2007, when restructuring and reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), China's acceptance into the World Trade Organization (WTO), and rapid economic growth all took place.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the impact of high school quality on students' educational attainment using a regression discontinuity research design based on entrance examination score thresholds that strictly determine admission to the magnet high schools and found that attending a magnet high school significantly increases students' college entrance examination scores and the probability of being admitted to college.

TL;DR: The authors argue that in highly unequal societies, a rent-seeking and self-maximizing dictator may be supported by a fraction of the population, despite the absence of special benefits to these societal groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether the inclusion of educational rights in political constitutions affects the quality of education and find that there is no evidence that including the right to education in the constitution has been associated with higher test scores.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple theoretical account of the coexistence of different forms of family when farms are heterogeneous in land endowments and technology is stagnant is provided. And the authors also offer analytical insights into the sequence following which such forms succeed each other.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the effect of the party of the US President at the time when American Indian tribes adopted a written constitution for the first time, finding that there is a persistent effect on economic development even after controlling for other important characteristics and conducting extensive robustness checks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the effect of state ownership on productivity and other aspects of Indian railways in the nineteenth century and find no evidence of a decline in productivity following state takeovers of private companies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of social trust and formal legal institutions on capital accumulation in a panel of countries was studied, and the results not only confirm that both trust and the quality of formal legal institution have a positive impact on capital creation, but also show that they are substitutes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effects of growth in countries' national incomes on political risk, using the annual growth rate of the international oil price weighted with countries' average oil net export GDP shares as an instrument for national income growth.