Openness and Governance: Evidence Across Countries

Al‐Marhubi, Fahim

doi:10.1080/13600810500199269

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“…This descriptive evidence is further corroborated by the results of our robustness check, which confirms our main results. 10 Second, instead of relying on a single indicator we take into consideration all of the six WGI indicators by taking the average as done in previous works (Knack and Keefer, 1995;Al-Marhubi, 2005;Bergh et al, 2014). Our results are corroborated by this further robustness check (see Table A 5).…”

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confidence: 65%

The Wealth of (Open Data) Nations? Examining the Interplay of Open Government Data and Country-level Institutions for Entrepreneurial Activity at the Country-level

Huber

Ponce²,

Rentocchini

et al. 2020

SSRN Journal

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SEEDS is an interuniversity research centre. It develops research and higher education projects in the fields of ecological and environmental economics, with a special focus on the role of policy and innovation. Main fields of action are environmental policy, economics of innovation, energy economics and policy, economic evaluation by stated preference techniques, waste management and policy, climate change and development.The SEEDS Working Paper Series are indexed in RePEc and Google Scholar. Papers can be downloaded free of charge from the following websites: http://www.sustainability-seeds.org/.

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Section: Other Robustness Checkssupporting

confidence: 65%

The Wealth of (Open Data) Nations? Examining the Interplay of Open Government Data and Country-level Institutions for Entrepreneurial Activity at the Country-level

Huber

Ponce²,

Rentocchini

et al. 2020

SSRN Journal

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“…When using the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), which measure countries’ levels of corruption and government effectiveness, Gantman (2012) was able to show that poor governance in the form of political authoritarianism has a negative and statistically significant effect on the quality of scientific output, not only in the social sciences but also in the neurosciences, medicine, and agricultural and biological sciences (Gantman, 2012). Although the WGI has been criticized for the lack of a clear theoretical foundation (e.g., Andrews, 2008; Andrews et al, 2010; Erkkilä & Piironen, 2014; Gisselquist, 2014), it has successfully predicted sustainable economic growth (Adkisson & McFerrin, 2014; Güney, 2017; Law et al, 2013), openness in international trade (Al-Marhubi, 2005), a diminishing number of road traffic fatalities (Gaygisiz, 2010), and reduced Olympic success due to lower rates of doping use among the athletes in less corrupt countries (Potts, 2014).…”

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Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations

Allïk

Lauk

Realo

2020

Cross-Cultural Research

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It has been repeatedly demonstrated that economic affluence is one of the main predictors of the scientific wealth of nations. Yet, the link is not as straightforward as is often presented. First, only a limited set of relatively affluent countries is usually studied. Second, there are differences between equally rich countries in their scientific success. The main aim of the present study is to find out which factors can enhance or suppress the effect of the economic wealth of countries on their scientific success, as measured by the High Quality Science Index ( HQSI). The HQSI is a composite indicator of scientific wealth, which in equal parts considers the mean citation rate per paper and the percentage of papers that have reached the top 1% of citations in the Essential Science Indicators ( ESI; Clarivate Analytics) database during the 11-year period from 2008 to 2018. Our results show that a high position in the ranking of countries on the HQSI can be achieved not only by increasing the number of high-quality papers but also by reducing the number of papers that are able to pass ESI thresholds but are of lower quality. The HQSI was positively and significantly correlated with the countries’ economic indicators (as measured by gross national income and Research and Development expenditure as a percentage from GDP), but these correlations became insignificant when other societal factors were controlled for. Overall, our findings indicate that it is small and well-governed countries with a long-standing democratic past that seem to be more efficient in translating economic wealth into high-quality science.

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“…By introducing a dummy variable for institutional homogeneity, they find that homogeneity in institutional quality is significant in explaining trade flows. Similarly, Al-Marhubi (2005) finds that more open countries tend to have better quality of governance.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 96%

Institutional quality and export-led growth: an empirical study

Sathyamoorthy

Tang

2018

JES

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of institutional quality on the export-led growth (ELG) with global evidence of a panel of 119 countries. Design/methodology/approach The research framework looks at the role of exports in promoting growth via. good institutional quality. The methods of testing are panel data approach of causality, and fixed and random effects models. Findings Empirical results show that good Institutional quality mediates the ELG relationship in general, and middle income group in specific. The legal institutional quality has significant positive impact, whereas political and economic institutional quality have significant negative impact on ELG for all sampled countries. Research limitations/implications The Kuncic’s (2014) institutional quality data are annually available between 1990 and 2010. Therefore, time series analysis for individual country is bias with 21 observations. And, this study ignores other potential variables such as capital, labor, real exchange rate, and so on, may possibly contribute to omitted-variables bias. Practical implications Policymakers may well utilize institutional quality reforms either in terms of improving existing institutional quality or enhancing “second-best” institutions as a policy instrument to reap success from export-oriented growth strategies. Originality/value Existing studies on ELG have ignored institutional quality as a relevant variable. It looks at the three institutional quality indicators, namely political, economic, and legal in ELG framework.

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Openness and Governance: Evidence Across Countries

Cited by 29 publications

References 34 publications

The Wealth of (Open Data) Nations? Examining the Interplay of Open Government Data and Country-level Institutions for Entrepreneurial Activity at the Country-level

The Wealth of (Open Data) Nations? Examining the Interplay of Open Government Data and Country-level Institutions for Entrepreneurial Activity at the Country-level

Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations

Institutional quality and export-led growth: an empirical study

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