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The "loans for shares" scheme of 1995-6--in which a handful of well-connected businessmen bought stakes in major Russian companies--is widely considered a scandal that slowed subsequent Russian economic growth. Fifteen years later, I reexamine the details of the program. In light of evidence...
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We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...
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Adaptable property-rights institutions, we argue, foster economic development. The British example illustrates this point. Around 1700, Parliament established a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to take advantage of...
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China is the world’s largest investor and greatest contributor to global economic growth by wide margins, and will … sustain this growth. This paper shows that China’s stock market has a crucial role to play. Since the reforms of the last … decade, China’s stock market has become as informative about future corporate profits as in the US. Moreover, though it is a …
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The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various...
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Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
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. This evidence suggests that intangible capital formation may play an important role in China's reform-driven transformation … no general assessment of its role in China's rapid economic growth. This paper seeks to fill this gap by estimating how … China's recent growth is then assessed using a growth accounting framework, and the results compared to similar findings for …
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During Egypt's Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak's government and ushered in an era of competition between three groups: elites associated with Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), the military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood....
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China's investment rate is one of the highest in the world, which naturally leads one to suspect that the return to … capital in China must be quite low. Using the data from China's national accounts, we estimate the rate of return to capital … in China. We find that the aggregate rate of return to capital averaged 25% during 1978-1993, fell during 1993-1998, and …
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India. …
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