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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
Bentzen, Jeanet - 2015
Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …
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Openness, Specialization, and Productivity Growth in Less Developed Countries
Weinhold, Diana - 1997
Many empirical studies have found a positive relationship between openness and growth in per capita GDP in less developed countries, and economists have produced many explanations for this correlation. However, the existing studies are consistent with all of these theories and thus do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472682
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Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a 'political replacement effect'. Innovations often erode elites' incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political elites...
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Princes and Merchants : European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution
De Long, J. Bradford - 1993
As measured by the pace of city growth in western Europe from 1000 to 1800. absolutist monarchs stunted the growth of …
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The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015
Jordà, Òscar - 2017
time--total returns to the largest, but oft ignored, component of household wealth, housing. The annual data on total …
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Do the Retired Elderly in Europe Decumulate Their Wealth? The Importance of Bequest Motives, Precautionary Saving, Public Pensions, and Homeownership
Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize … our main findings, we find that less than half of the retired elderly in Europe are decumulating their wealth and that the … average wealth accumulation rate of the retired elderly in Europe is positive though relatively moderate (6.6% over a 3-year …
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The GATT's Contribution to Economic Recovery in Post-War Western Europe
Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994
(GATT) in promoting economic recovery and growth in Europe in the decade after World War II. The formation of the GATT does …
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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation,...
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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Voigtlaender, Nico - 2011
level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half …
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Bureaucracy and Development
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin; Khan, Adnan Q.; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in whether and how bureaucratic effectiveness contributes to development. Just what makes for an effective bureaucracy and what are the building blocks of state capacity remain subject to debate. This paper reviews the arguments connecting...
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