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In this essay we analyze the relation between long-term growth and institutional development. Relative backwardness has been a constant feature of the history of Latin America. In the wake of Independence the gap between Latin America and the industrializing world was already wide and widened...
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consequences of a major shift in the production of coca paste from Peru and Bolivia to Colombia, where most coca leaf is now …
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Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
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Though models of political economy suggest that changes in political institutions, such as democratization, should have large effects on policies and economic outcomes, the empirical literature finds ambiguous results. It is important, however, to ‘unbundle’ democratic reforms into more...
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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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Credit market imperfections have been blamed for the depth and persistence of the Great Depression in the US. Could similar mechanisms have played a role in ending the East Asian miracle? After a brief account of the nature of the recent crises, we use Kiyotaki and Moore’s (1997) model of...
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This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link … from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership … ownership and various types of private ownership, while contrasting concentrated and diffuse forms of private ownership …
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corporations. We investigate this question by tracing the ownership and board composition of firms incorporated in around 1900 over … the subsequent 100 years, and comparing the pattern of ownership and control with a sample incorporated around 1960. We … outside equity finance, and there was rapid dispersion of ownership even in the absence of investor protection. The …
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trading of ownership and control in a private information setting. The model provides a novel explanation for the prevalence … and persistence of the separation of ownership from control in modern corporations: efficiency in the market for corporate … control is more easily achieved when ownership is not concentrated in the hands of the manager. The central reason is that low …
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The creation of Europe’s ‘new’ stock markets represents a major experiment in market design with important implications for the ability to support innovative, fast-growing companies. We evaluate the success of these markets based on a large number of measures of firm performance and...
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