A5040982598- Corruption and Economic Development
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- International Development and Aid
- Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Economic Growth and Development
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Russia and Soviet political economy
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Mining and Resource Management
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Cambodian History and Society
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Global Security and Public Health
University of Oslo
2018-2024
University of Milano-Bicocca
2023
Collegio Carlo Alberto
2023
University of Luxembourg
2021-2022
University College London
2019-2021
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
2019-2020
University of Otago
2014-2017
Rochester Institute of Technology Kosovo
2013
This Codebook includes all the variables that V-Dem is compiling in 2020 dataset.
This Codebook includes all the variables that V-Dem is compiling in v14 dataset (2024).
All variables that V-Dem is compiling are included in the Codebook.
This Codebook includes all the variables that V-Dem is compiling in 2019 dataset.
All variables that V-Dem is compiling are included in the Codebook.
ABSTRACT The ‘anti‐corruption consensus’ of the dominant development paradigm sees corruption as a governance failure and maintains that graft can be reduced or eradicated through appropriate institutional reforms, such strengthening judiciary, designing corruption‐proof regulatory regimes, establishing anti‐corruption agencies. This article aims to cast doubt on theoretical rationale this family interventions. neo‐classical informs consensus is based set unsatisfactory idealizations, which...
Abstract The Feminisation U describes the tendency of female labour force participation (FLFP) to first decline and then rise in process economic development. While is often presented as a ‘stylised fact’ development, empirical support for it mixed. Here, we show that cultural norms inherited from ancestral plough use exert moderating influence on shape U. Specifically, find significantly U-shaped path FLFP only countries whose ancestors employed plough-based agricultural technology. U-curve...
Since the mid-1990s, an ‘anticorruption consensus’ has emerged in international development policy: because corruption is taken to be invariably deleterious for investment and growth, eliminating or reducing come seen as a necessary precondition development. This article takes issue with theoretical empirical underpinnings of this proposition. To do so, it reviews codifies emerging strand literature that transcends narrow assumptions economic models theorizes much more carefully social...
The parameters of logit models are typically difficult to interpret, and the applied literature is replete with interpretive computational mistakes. In this article, I review a menu options interpret results logistic regressions correctly effectively using Stata. consider marginal effects, partial (contrasts of) predictive margins, elasticities, odds risk ratios. also show that interaction terms easier in practice than implied by recent on topic.
This article argues that the high levels of corruption and rent-seeking typically observed in resource-rich countries are often caused by a sub-optimal separation powers amongst state regulators responsible for firm licensing. To establish this point, I develop transaction cost account mining-sector licensing systems, showing due to costs different allocations institutional mandates give rise differential incentives rent-seeking. By critically assessing elaborating World Bank's thinking on...
Most of the literature on political business and budgetary cycles (PBBC) has focused fiscal monetary policy variables in advanced-country contexts. We extend this by investigating cycle effects a non-monetary, non-fiscal regime (the allocation mining licences) transition country context. propose model licensing that allows for corruption both supply demand to determine outcome. then estimate using time-series data from post-communist Albania. Relying dynamic Poisson model, we find evidence...
The economic trajectory of post-war Kosovo has seen the industrial economy this newly independent country stagnate or contract. This negative trend not spared once-thriving mining and metals (MM) sector, in which even few successful projects have developed as isolated poorly integrated production “enclaves”. Drawing on a neo-statist political framework development, paper argues that unsatisfactory performance Kosovo's MM sector is largely consequence dominance neoliberal policy paradigm,...
Slavoj Zizek and Agon Hamza From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo, Kolektivi Materializmi Dialektik: Prishtine, 2013; 103 pp.: 9789951883528 (pbk) charge de-politicisation has long been a staple in leftist circles. Since John Harris coined the phrase, we often hear that World Bank business 'depoliticising development' (Harris 2002). Neoliberalism itself is frequently chided for denying or concealing its deeply political character. (1) At times, though, argument from depoliticisation...
Abstract We analyze the effects of opportunistic and partisan politics on licensing construction activities, which in turn determines level housing supply. In line with Political Business Cycle theory, we hypothesize that municipal incumbent may manipulate supply permits before (general local) elections order to boost economic activity voter satisfaction, or accommodate special‐interest groups. Our findings, based time‐series data from post‐socialist Tirana (Albania), are consistent...
Two decades after the conflicts that followed collapse of Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia, scholars have produced a great deal insightful analysis on political issues pertaining...
Since the introduction of margins command in Stata 11, empirical literature has increasingly used marginal effects, predictive margins, and adjusted predictions postestimation analysis. Marginal effects are particularly useful for interpretation parameter estimates after logit, probit, poisson, other nonlinear regression models. If covariate interest is logs, however, obtaining meaningful results from dydx() not straightforward. In this article, I first illustrate these difficulties context...
Since the late 1990s, aid spending for elections has witnessed a dramatic increase. Yet, we lack comprehensive evaluation of effectiveness in this particular programme area. Here, investigate impact on electoral integrity using panel data purpose-disaggregated disbursements and multi-dimensional index quality from Varieties Democracy project. Based 502 126 aid-receiving countries during 2002–2015, estimate statistically significant effect election-support ODA elections. The estimated is,...
Abstract This article criticizes Laura V alentini's criterion for distinguishing good and bad idealizations in normative political theory. I argue that, on an attentive reading of her criterion, all ideal theories she discusses must be written off as incorporating idealizations. fact makes trivially implausible, it is argued that there are succeed promoting the action‐guiding goal Upon rejecting attempt to salvage alentini marks bad, develop alternative demarcating The holds standing a...
Political business cycles are typically linked to the manipulation of fiscal or monetary policy instruments. In a recent article, Imami, Lami and Uberti (ILU) argue that opportunistic politicians may also choose manipulate non-fiscal/non-monetary Here, we extend ILU's study using time-series data on mining-sector licensing from post-conflict Kosovo (2001–2018). We find robust evidence is consistent with electoral opportunism in allocation mining permits, despite checks-and-balance mechanisms...