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Vol. 16 No. 1. (2017)
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Market institutions precede market beliefs: a test with cross-country regressions

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2017-06-12
DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.21845/comp/2017/1/1
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Pál Czeglédi
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market institutions market beliefs Schumpeter
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Czeglédi, P. (2017). Market institutions precede market beliefs: a test with cross-country regressions. Competitio, 16(1.), 3-30. https://doi.org/10.21845/comp/2017/1/1
Abstract

The paper examines the literature on culture, economic growth and institutions to derive hypotheses about the relationships between market beliefs, institutions, and productivity. It then tests these hypotheses with cross-country regressions. First, it points out that each of the four cause-and-effect hypotheses of the possible relationships have an economic literature, in that market beliefs are seen as parts of culture. Second, the paper tests these hypotheses by making use of the fact that they consider different variables as exogenous ones. Measures of market beliefs are the coefficients of the country-dummies in the regressions run with individual data from the World Values Survey. The tests support the two hypotheses which hold that it is institutions, not market beliefs, that are exogenous.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes: L26, O43, P16

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