20.500.12556/RUL-152980 Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation Institutional quality is crucial for innovation and economic growth. In this article, we exploit historical linguistic differences across Slovenian municipalities between the Italian, German, and Slovenian-speaking population prior to World War 1, as a plausible exogenous source of variation in firm-level innovation to estimate the effect of institutional quality on innovation. Employing a set of limited dependent variable and instrumental variable models, we show that greater historical exposure to multilingualism is associated with markedly better quality of government and provision of public goods, more impartial local government administration, and lower prevalence of corruption, which in turn predicts systematically more vibrant economic activity, greater economic complexity, and higher rates of firm-level innovation at the local level. The estimated effects are robust to a variety of specification checks and do not appear to be sensitive to the choice of ethnic and linguistic diversity measures. enterprises economic history innovations productivity corruption firms institutions podjetje ekonomska zgodovina inovacije produktivnost korupcija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2023-12-13 13:11:47 2023-12-13 13:11:51 2023-12-14 03:55:09 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 22 str. art. 106155 Vol. 75 Sep. 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 346 0144-8188 10.1016/j.irle.2023.106155 159498755 1-s2.0-S0144818823000339-main.pdf 1-s2.0-S0144818823000339-main.pdf 1 448BA3F372842F37882221DCCB4A4992 150417b137a1f9d966b6b9478033bf946f3d4662d5bfdf46f90d983adad993bd 19bcb754-99b1-11ee-9499-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=178744 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144818823000339 0 f2e6d31b-99b0-11ee-9499-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=178743 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0