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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 …
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Prevailing trade theory is a neglected stepchild of economics. Micro rejects the sole reason for trade’s occurrence. It declares zero profit in equilibrium. Monetary theory and macroeconomics dismiss concerns of trade financing. They assert that money has nothing to do with traded output, but...
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between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … factors to translate unobserved shocks to the labor market into observed cellspecific unemployment rates as well as bilateral …
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institutions. Village capital is efficient for localized economies; market capital allows trade between strangers and greater …
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This paper presents an overlapping generations model with technology choice and credit market imperfections, in order to investigate a possible source of underdevelopment. The model shows that a better financial infrastructure that provides stronger enforcement of contracts facilitates the...
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words “institution” and “institutions” and the different levels at which the two notions are employed. Institutionalism …
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associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
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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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from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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