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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 …

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Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support? The Role of Wage Determination

Bruegemann, Bjoern - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051382

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 …

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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

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 …

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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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Lobbying and Technology Diffusion

Hobijn, Bart; Comin, Diego - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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