Governance Institutions and Economic Activity

By Avinash Dixit. 2009

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks (2012, background): “To the extent that network closure is a key requirement of networks operating as a governance mechanism, a network with many geodesically distant, unconnected nodes may not be effective in such a governance role (Dixit 2009), suggesting that the closure benefit provided by the network is transitory.”
Property Rights and EconomicDevelopment (2009, unknown): “See de Meza and Gould (1992) and Dixit (2004).”
Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development? (2013, background): “2 1 Introduction The notion that the quality of a country’s institutional framework is a key determinant of development has reached the status of a consensus, if not that of a “buzzword”, as Dixit (2009) calls it.”
The Signaling Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Economies (2016, background): “Given the tremendous diversity of institutional environments around the world (Chacar et al. 2010; Dixit 2009; Ioannou and Serafeim 2012), the effec-”
Government size and growth: Accounting for economic freedom and globalization (2010, background): “Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu (2006) conduct a meta-study of 52 studies dealing with the impact of economic freedom on economic growth, concluding that "economic freedom has a robust positive effect on economic growth regardless of how it is measured" (p.”
Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (2014, background): “…held view in the recent economics literature is that this Commercial Revolution was facilitated by particularized institutions called merchant guilds, corporative associations of wholesale traders (Greif et al. 1994; Greif, 2006c; Ostrom, 1998; Maggi, 1999;Taylor, 2002;Anderson,2008;Dixit,2009).”
Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children (2014, background): “It is noteworthy that this type of mechanism has been highlighted by recent theories of endogenous social preferences (Adriani and Sonderegger 2009; Dixit 2009).”
NPD speed vs. innovativeness: The contingent impact of institutional and market environments (2013, background): “018 property rights is also a primary cause of poor economic performance, especially in less developed or emerging economies (Dixit, 2009).”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Middlemen can economize on direct exchange costs, for example, by facilitating a match between a buyer and a seller (Biglaiser and Friedman, 1999) and by decreasing transaction costs related to search time and information asymmetry (Dixit, 2009; Hayami, 1996).”
The Mobile Phone in the Diffusion of Knowledge for Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016, unknown): “(1) Dixit (2009) defines economic governance as the “ ‘…structure and functioning of the legal and social institutions that support economic activity and economic transactions by protecting property rights, enforcing contracts, and taking collective action to provide physical and organizational…”