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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance …

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Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on...

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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism

Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - CESifo - 2004

dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …

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The Economic Welfare Cost of Conflict: An Empirical Assessment

Hess, Gregory D. - CESifo - 2003

only the material, economic welfare costs of conflict stemming from the altered path of consumption resulting from conflict …-peaceful world. But how much would individual be willing to pay to avoid just the economic costs of conflict? Remarkably, even these … pure economic welfare losses from conflict are quite large. I find that, on average, individuals who live in a country that …

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - CESifo - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...

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The Volatility Curse: Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty

Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2009

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...

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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - CESifo - 2006

This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...

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Population, Pensions, and Endogenous Economic Growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - CESifo - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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