patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency … for all standard socio-demographics as well as country, year and denomination fixed effects. Across the fifty …

deeper social and political determinants, the various economic mechanisms in play defy the idea of a monocausal explanation. …

macroeconomic questions such as business cycles, growth, and policy. Particular attention is given to the ability of the model to …

We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequality and political accountability undermine … from raising capital. They succeed because they can promise larger political contributions than the entrants due to the … unequal, and the political system becomes more accountable. Consistent with these predictions, in a cross-section of 38 …

such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around … sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …, and to those attributable to domestic forces specific to Mexico. It uses a neo-Ricardian model (with non …

and quality of governance are crucial in helping developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly …This Paper provides a comprehensive assessment of empirical evidence about the impact of financial globalization on … growth and volatility in developing countries. The results suggest that it is difficult to establish a robust causal …

This Paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global … distribution. Spatial inequality is a Cass-Koopmans saddlepath, and the global distribution of economic activity converges towards …

secular rise thereafter – must be explained both by industrial revolutionary growth forces and by global forces that opened up … the English economy to international trade. This paper explores whether and how the relationship was different for Spain …, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a …