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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a …

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

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Monthly GDP Estimates for Inter-War Britain

Mitchell, James; Solomou, Solomos; Weale, Martin - CESifo - 2011

We derive monthly and quarterly series of UK GDP for the inter-war period from a set of monthly indicators that were constructed by The Economist at the time. The monthly information is complemented with data for quarterly industrial production, allowing us to employ mixed-frequency methods to...

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Can General Purpose Technology Theory Explain Economic Growth? Electrical Power as a Case Study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - CESifo - 2014

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to...

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Taking the Lord's Name in Vain: The Impact of Connected Directors on 19th Century British Banks

Grossman, Richard S.; Imai, Masami - CESifo - 2014

This paper utilizes data on the presence of prominent individuals—that is, those with political (e.g., Members of Parliament) and aristocratic titles (e.g., lords)--on the boards of directors of English and Welsh banks from 1879-1909 to investigate whether the appointment of well-connected...

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Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration: Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - CESifo - 2012

Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...

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The Sustainability of Fiscal Policy in Italy: A Long-Term Perspective

Bartoletto, Silvana; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - CESifo - 2012

The recent fears of a sovereign debt crisis have spurred interest in the sustainability of public debt. There are two different approaches to the assessment of sustainability: the use of sustainability gap indicators (Blanchard et al., 1990) and the time series approach (Trehan and Walsh, 1988)....

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

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iPEHD - The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - CESifo - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

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