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Institutions for High-Quality Growth : What They are and How to Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - 2000

This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that underpin them. The paper emphasizes the importance of...

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Short-Term Capital Flows

Rodrik, Dani - 1999

We provide a conceptual and empirical framework for evaluating the effects of short-term capital flows. A simple model of the joint determination of the maturity and cost of external borrowing highlights the role played by self-fulfilling crises. The model also specifies the circumstances under...

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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence

Rodriguez, Francisco - 1999

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...

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A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals

Greenspon, Jacob; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

economy. Developing country representation has risen fastest at journals rated 100th or lower, while it has barely increased … increase in the relative supply of research in the rest of the world. But they also indicate authors from developing countries …

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A Primer on Trade and Inequality

Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In the public imagination globalization's adverse effects have loomed large, contributing significantly to the backlash against the political mainstream and the rise of far-right populism. The literature on trade and inequality is in fact exceptionally rich, with important theoretical insights...

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What You Export Matters

Hausmann, Ricardo - 2005

When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate this proposition formally and adduce some empirical support for it. We...

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Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income : Estimating the Interrelationships

Rigobon, Roberto - 2004

law are both good for economic performance, but the latter has a much stronger impact on incomes. Openness (trade/GDP) has … a negative impact on income levels and democracy, but a positive effect on rule of law. Higher income produces greater … openness and better institutions, but these effects are not very strong. Rule of law and democracy tend to be mutually …

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Growth Accelerations

Hausmann, Ricardo - 2004

Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...

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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani - 2002

world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …

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Why Are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist Than Others?

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2001

We analyze a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range of socio-demographic and other indicators. We find that pro-trade preferences are significantly and robustly correlated with an individual's level of human capital, in the manner...

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