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Author: search.filters.author.Givens, David MichaelSubject: search.filters.subject.Economic Development

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    Four Essays in the Measurement of Governance Institutions
    (2010) Givens, David Michael; Murrell, Peter; Chao, John; Economics; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This dissertation produces a new set of orthogonal governance measures based on expert assessment data. Chapter 1 constructs the measures using a factor model. Chapter 2 applies the measures to study comparative economic development. Chapter 3 conducts a number of robustness checks on results from the first two chapters. Chapter 4 uses Monte Carlo experiments to assess potential inaccuracy in my governance measures caused by the application of the maximum-likelihood estimator to polytomous data.