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Economics of research and innovation in agriculture

Moser, Petra (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Research and … - 2021

--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …

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The role of agriculture in economic development : a conference of the Universtities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research

Thorbecke, Erik (ed.) - 1969

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Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...

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Latin America and Foreign Capital in the Twentieth Century : Economics, Politics, and Institutional Change

Taylor, Alan M. - 1999

Latin America began the twentieth century as a relatively poor region on the periphery of the world economy. One cause of a low level of income per person was capital scarcity. Long run growth via capital deepening requires either the mobilization of domestic capital through savings, or large...

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Large Scale Institutional Changes : Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

Libecap, Gary D. - 2010

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...

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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands

Henry, Peter Blair - 2008

Recent work emphasizes the primacy of differences in countries' colonially-bequeathed property rights and legal systems for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter example to this long-run view of income determination. Both...

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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan

Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008

Using a newly-constructed panel data set which includes annual estimates of lending rates for 47 Japanese prefectures, we analyze why interest rates converged over the period 1884-1925. We find evidence that technological innovations and institutional changes played an important role in creating...

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Second-Best Institutions

Rodrik, Dani - 2008

The focus of policy reform in developing countries has moved from getting prices right to getting institutions right, and accordingly countries are increasingly being advised to move towards "best-practice" institutions. This paper argues that appropriate institutions for developing countries...

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Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America

Levy, Frank - 2007

We provide a comprehensive view of widening income inequality in the United States contrasting conditions since 1980 with those in earlier postwar years. We argue that the income distribution in each period was strongly shaped by a set of economic institutions. The early postwar years were...

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Do Institutions Cause Growth?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...

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