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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion
Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005
Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118909
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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004
associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125614
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125845
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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003
from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126217
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Technology Catching-up and the Role of Institutions
Manca, Fabio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2009
technology catch-up across countries. Empirical evidence shows how countries endowed with better institutions are those … to catch-up. Some institutions, however, play an ambiguous role in the creation and adoption of technology. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997390
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A missing spatial link in institutional quality
Claeys, Peter; Manca, Fabio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2009
History tells that institutions evolve gradually over time, pushing new ideas across borders and cultures …. Globalisation is argued to accelerate this process. We examine the spatial links of different political institutions across borders … diffusion of institutions seems to occur only gradually. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005006743
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Land Inequality and the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005
distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062436
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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004
institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062522
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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407750
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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Celaya, Diana - EconWPA - 2004
institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407867