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Climatic fluctuations and the diffusion of agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2013

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

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Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2013

Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420283

Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318954

The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2010

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signifcant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch: Theory and evidence

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2008

This paper empirically tests the predictions of the Malthusian theory with respect to both population dynamics and income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during this period generated only temporary gains in income...

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Isolation and development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - 2009

This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...

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Finance-dominated capitalism in Germany: Deep recession and quick recovery

Detzer, Daniel; Hein, Eckhard - 2014

Germany's recent export successes and the fast recovery from the 2007 -2009 crisis made it Europe's "economic superstar … the development of Germany during the financial and economic crisis and the causes for the quick recovery in light of the …

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Finance-dominated capitalism and income distribution: A Kaleckian perspective on the case of Germany

Hein, Eckhard; Detzer, Daniel - 2014

and economic crises for Germany, one of the major mercantilist export-led economies. The analysis builds on a Kaleckian …, we show that Germany saw considerable re-distribution of income starting in early 1980s, which accelerated in the early … existence of each of these channels in Germany since the mid-1990s, when several institutional changes provided the conditions …

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Financialisation and the financial and economic crises: The case of Germany

Detzer, Daniel; Hein, Eckhard - 2014

This study on Germany examines the long-run changes between the financial and the non-financial sectors of the economy … financial and economic crisis and examines the causes of the quick recovery in Germany. …

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Fiscal policy and rebalancing in the Euro area: A critique of the German debt brake from a Post-Keynesian perspective

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2013

and/or investment and savings behavior in Germany. …

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