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ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT
by
Lanlan Wang
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PLANNING)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Lanlan Wang
Object Description
| Title | Essays in the study of institutions and development |
| Author | Wang, Lanlan |
| Author email | lanlanwa@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Planning |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-07-03 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-08-21 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Gordon, Peter |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Deng, Yongheng Nugent, Jeffrey |
| Abstract | Institutions matter. This is the central message brought up by the New Institutional Economics (NIE). As an "interdisciplinary research enterprise", NIE places "institutions" into an object of research. NIE also holds the view that institutions, along with other productive factors such as technological innovation, labor, capital, etc., are vital and endogenous components of the development process. The importance of institutions also gets support from an accumulating body of empirical studies and increasingly available and widespread evidence.; This study reports on three empirical studies that seek greater clarity and a better understanding of the role played by institutions within the macro and micro spheres. The first essay develops empirical tests to examine the big picture of the development process and uses national-level data to empirically test whether the causal relationships between economic performance, institutions and the scope of public sectors can be estimated. The second and third essays investigate whether and to what degree macro-level and micro-level institutions would affect individuals' behavior. This study elaborates the view that individuals' social behavior is a key part of the development process and could be an important channel through which to better understand "institutions".; However, because of the vagueness of concepts that are widely used in the NIE, the "literature on the institutional determinants of economic prosperity" (Rodrik 2004, p. 13) cannot offer solid and operational guidance to understand the meaning of "institutions" or the way of institutions to evolve. Meeting this research goal requires specialized knowledge of particular institutions, which in turn, might challenge the existence of the NIE. |
| Keyword | institutions; property rights; economic development |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m794 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Wang, Lanlan |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Wang-20070821 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Wang-20070821.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT by Lanlan Wang A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PLANNING) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Lanlan Wang |
