Summary of JOIE article ( First View 11 May 2021) by Kara Dimitruk, Sophia Du Plessis and Stan Du Plessis, Department of Economics & LEAP, Stellenbosch University. The full article is available on the JOIE Website. The capacity of states to raise taxes and provide property rights is seen as crucial for economic development. The determinants…
Author: Nikhilesh Sinha
Nikhilesh Sinha teaches courses at the Hult International Business School London, where he is also a Research Fellow. While his primary discipline is economics, his research draws on the wider social sciences and is focused on issues facing the poor in developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa. He has published most recently on rental housing and on the 2010 Microfinance Crisis in India.
Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship In developing economies
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 14 May 2021) by Joyce K. Nabisaalu and Per L. Bylund, Oklahoma State University. The full article is available on the JOIE Website. “Financial institutions made it easy or at least generally possible for ability to secure capital when not in possession of it by direct ownership and made…
Response to governmental COVID-19 restrictions: the role of informal institutions
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 26 April 2021) by Katarzyna Bentkowska Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of Markets and Competition, Warsaw, Poland. The full article is available on the JOIE Website. In 2020, countries unexpectedly faced a new challenge—the COVID-19 pandemic—and they had to take countermeasures to address it. The levels of restrictions imposed varied across countries. However, implementing restrictions…
Coevolving institutions and the paradox of informal constraints
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 26 January 2021) by Daniel Seligson, Palo Alto, CA, USA, and Anne E. C. McCants, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE Website, The notion that institutions matter has circulated for millennia. The dynamics of their interaction with the economy has been hinted…
Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: evidence from post-communist economies
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 04 February 2021) by Chiara Amini, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Elodie Douarin, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London and Tim Hinks, University of West of England. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Even though individualism has…
Let’s do it Frank’s way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 22 March 2021) by Marek Hudik, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business and Per L. Bylund, School of Entrepreneurship, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University The full article is available on the JOIE website. Our paper makes an argument for finding the proper balance between…
Is Tax Morale Culturally Driven?
Summary of JOIE article (Published 23 February 2021) by Luca Andriani, Department of Management, Birkbeck University, Randolph Bruno, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Elodie Douarin, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London and Paulina Stepien-Baig, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. The full article is available…
Economic Freedom and Antisemitism
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 27 October 2020) by Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden, and Therese Nilsson, Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden. The full article is available on the JOIE website. One of the oldest forms of intolerance and hatred is directed against Jews for being Jews….
Financial globalization and institutions in Africa: the case of foreign direct investment, central bank independence and political institutions
Summary of JOIE article (16(6), December 2020) by Abel Mawuko Agoba, Department of Banking and Finance, Central University, Tema, Ghana, Elikplimi Agbloyor, Department of Finance, University of Ghana Business School, Afua Agyapomaa Gyeke-Dako, Department of Finance, University of Ghana Business School, and Mac-Clara Acquah, Zenith University College, Trade Fair, Accra, Ghana. The full article is…
Financial Institutions and the British Industrial Revolution: Did Financial underdevelopment hold back Growth?
Summary of JOIE article (17(3), June 2021) by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. The complete article is available on the JOIE website. This is a summary of an article that addresses the role of financial institutions in empowering the British Industrial Revolution. Prominent economic historians have argued that investment was largely…