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Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to … suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to globalization and its future developments may be militarist …

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Productivity Differences

Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies, and as such are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Due to differences in the supply of skills, some of the tasks performed by skilled workers in the OECD economies will be...

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Political Economy in a Changing World

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...

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Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States

Acemoglu, Daron - 2005

While much research in political economy points out the benefits of "limited government," political scientists have long emphasized the problems created in many less developed nations by "weak states," which lack the power to tax and regulate the economy and to withstand the political and social...

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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The Economics of Labor Coercion

Acemoglu, Daron - 2009

The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are "coercive", in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. We propose...

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Constitutions, Politics and Economics : A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's "The Economic Effect of Constitutions"

Acemoglu, Daron - 2005

In this essay I review the new book by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions, which investigates the policy and economic consequences of different forms of government and electoral rules. I also take advantage of this opportunity to discuss the advantages and...

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The World Income Distribution

Acemoglu, Daron - 2001

trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing … perspective time-series behavior of the world economy is similar to that of existing endogenous growth models, with the world … country level, the cross-sectional behavior of the world economy is similar to that of existing exogenous growth models: cross …

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Population and Civil War

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world …

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The Network Origins of Large Economic Downturns

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

This paper shows that large economic downturns may result from the propagation of microeconomic shocks over the input-output linkages across different firms or sectors within the economy. Building on the framework of Acemoglu et al. (2012), we argue that the economy's input-output structure can...

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