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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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"Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine : The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925

Libecap, Gary D. - 2000

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the North American agricultural frontier moved for the first time into semi-arid regions where farming was vulnerable to drought. Farmers who migrated to the region had to adapt their crops, techniques, and farm sizes to better fit the environment. But...

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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Alston, Lee J. - 2009

We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto … depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers … relatively peaceful where claimants have reasons to organize collectively (Australia and the U.S.). The settlement process will …

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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

Busso, Matias - 2010

This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...

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Spatial Development

Desmet, Klaus - 2009

We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...

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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012

Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...

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Macroeconomic Policy and Institutions During the Transition to European Union Membership

Branson, William H. - 1998

membership (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). A Multi-Annual Fiscal Adjustment Strategy (MAFAS) and a Pre …

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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...

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How Collateral Laws Shape Lending and Sectoral Activity

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2016

favor immovable-based production. An analysis of Slovakia's collateral law reform confirms our findings …

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The American economy in transition

Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1980

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