Large-scale Transformations of Socio-economic Institutions.
WWWforEurope: Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe, Dezember 2014, 37 Seiten
Auftraggeber: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien – Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH – Österreichische Austauschdienst-GesmbH – Europäische Kommission, Rahmenprogramm
Studie von: Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
We explain economic growth by both politics, i.e., government activity including spending as well as regulation, and institutional
quality and its interaction with politics. This extends previous work on institution building in transition by looking at
its impact and, at the same time, considering endogeneity problems. While initially planned in two stages, the modified approach
is able to integrate the arguments developed in the cluster approach on varieties of capitalism and their potential explanatory
power for economic growth. As forseen for the second stage, we estimate the determinants of transition based on the exogenous
components of institution building only as well as on other factors, especially welfare policies. This approach also allows
integrating various measures of income or well-being as soon as panel data becomes available.
Forschungsbereich:Makroökonomie und öffentliche Finanzen