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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
Tella, Rafael Di - 2007
corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism … externality since the existence of corrupt entrepreneurs hurts good entrepreneurs by reducing the electoral appeal of capitalism …
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State Versus Private Ownership
Shleifer, Andrei - 1998
costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on …
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A Model of Capital and Crises
He, Zhiguo - 2008
We develop a model in which the capital of the intermediary sector plays a critical role in determining asset prices. The model is cast within a dynamic general equilibrium economy, and the role for intermediation is derived endogenously based on optimal contracting considerations. Low...
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History as Evolution
Nunn, Nathan - 2020
In this chapter, I consider the benefits of viewing history through an evolutionary lens. In recent decades, a field of research has emerged, which builds on foundations from biological evolution to study culture within an evolutionary framework. I begin the chapter by discussing the theory...
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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
Cultural transmission arguably plays an important role in the determination of many fundamental preference traits (e.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards family and fertility practices, and attitudes...
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The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers
Chu, C.Y. Cyrus - 2008
At each age an organism produces energy by foraging and allocates this energy among reproduction, survival, growth, and intergenerational transfers. We characterize the optimal set of allocation decisions that maximizes reproductive fitness. Time preference (the discount rate) is derived from...
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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence
Erdem, Erkan - 2003
Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...
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Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry
Zingales, Luigi - 1997
This paper studies the impact that capital market imperfections have on the natural" selection of the most efficient firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less...
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Industry Evolution and Transition : A Neoclassical Benchmark
Atkeson, Andrew - 1997
Recently, a large number of countries have undertaken major reforms that have led to a large increase in the number of new enterprises. After these reforms, however, it has taken a number of years before output and productivity have begun to grow. The thesis of this paper is that the process of...
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The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017
The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide...
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