Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 555
Cover Image
Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development
Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
remain small. We estimate the parameters of the model using firm-level data for India and the United States. We study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660011
Cover Image
In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A. - 2014
) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458175
Cover Image
Sectoral Development Multipliers
Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512084
Cover Image
Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state
Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486248
Cover Image
Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001791053
Cover Image
Institutions for High-Quality Growth : What They are and How to Acquire Them
Rodrik, Dani - 2000
most effective ones for processing and aggregating local knowledge. Democracy is a meta-institution for building good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471235
Cover Image
Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?
Rangel, Antonio - 1999
Are market and voting institutions capable of producing optimal intergenerational risk-sharing? To study this question, we consider a simple endowment economy with uncertainty and overlapping generations. Endowments are stochastic; thus it is possible to increase the welfare of every generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471858
Cover Image
Democracies Pay Higher Wages
Rodrik, Dani - 1998
-30 percent were Mexico to attain a level of democracy comparable to that prevailing in the U.S …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472453
Cover Image
Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
Farber, Henry S. - 1995
The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473888
Cover Image
Democracy & Growth
Barro, Robert J. - 1994
Growth and democracy (subjective indexes of political freedom) are analyzed for a panel of about 100 countries from …, the overall effect of democracy on growth is weakly negative. There is a suggestion of a nonlinear relationship in which … democracy enhances growth at low levels of political freedom but depresses growth when a moderate level of freedom has already …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473998