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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion

Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005

Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118909

Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004

associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125614

Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences

Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003

from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126217

Technology Catching-up and the Role of Institutions

Manca, Fabio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2009

technology catch-up across countries. Empirical evidence shows how countries endowed with better institutions are those … to catch-up. Some institutions, however, play an ambiguous role in the creation and adoption of technology. We find that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997390

A missing spatial link in institutional quality

Claeys, Peter; Manca, Fabio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2009

History tells that institutions evolve gradually over time, pushing new ideas across borders and cultures …. Globalisation is argued to accelerate this process. We examine the spatial links of different political institutions across borders … diffusion of institutions seems to occur only gradually. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005006743

Land Inequality and the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005

distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062436

CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004

institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062522

Inefficient Policies, Inefficient Institutions and Trade

Segura-Cayuela, Ruben - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

of the reason may be related to the interaction between weak institutions and trade. In particular, I construct a model … in which trade opening in societies with weak institutions (in particular autocratic and elite-controlled political …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069308

Overlapping Generations Models of an Age-Group Society: The Rendille of Northern Kenya

Engineer, Merwan H.; Kang, Ming; Roth, Eric; Welling, Linda - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

marriage and birthing, the model can be calibrated using aggregate data. Fifth, the model permits an analysis of institutions …

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