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Setting standards: Information accumulation in development
Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997
We propose a model in which economic relations and institutions in advanced and less developed economies differ as these societies have access to different amounts of information. This lack of information makes it hard to give the right incentives to managers and entrepreneurs. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772297
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Productivity Differences
Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1998
Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies, and as such, are used to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Due to differences in the supply of skills, some of tasks performed by skilled workers in the OECD economies will be carried out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648718
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Information Accumulation in Development
Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1998
development, the share of financial intermediation carried out through market institutions should increase. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648754
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Business Cycle during Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective
Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019
We document that the nature of business cycles evolves over the process of development and structural change. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863612
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On foreign aid distortions to governance
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390868
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A Development Consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390877
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Conditional Determinants of Mobile Phones Penetration and Mobile Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390940
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The white man's burden : on the effect of African resistance to European domination
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A.; Cinyabuguma, … - 2016
Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496363
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Is the threat of foreign aid withdrawal an effective deterrent to political oppression? : evidence from 53 African countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496393
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Conditional determinants of mobile phones penetration and mobile banking in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407897