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Barro, Robert J. - 2003

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth has typically neglected the influence of religion. To fill … are the dependent variables. The instruments are dummy variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of … the religion market, an indicator of religious pluralism, and the composition of religions. We find that economic growth …

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Understanding long-run economic growth : geography, institutions, and the knowledge economy

Costa, Dora L. (ed.); Sokoloff, Kenneth L. (honouree); … - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355394

The European Origins of Economic Development

Easterly, William - 2012

Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...

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Oil Prices, Exhaustible Resources, and Economic Growth

Hamilton, James D. - 2012

This paper explores details behind the phenomenal increase in global crude oil production over the last century and a half and the implications if that trend should be reversed. I document that a key feature of the growth in production has been exploitation of new geographic areas rather than...

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Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

trade reinforced each other before 1930, but that these effects did not persist after the Second World War. Financial … after 1945. We attribute the rising importance of trade in explaining growth to major post-World War II changes in tariffs …

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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …

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Government, Openness and Finance : Past and Present

Demetriades, Panicos O. - 2010

We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that the government expenditures and international trade did...

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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

Hoff, Karla - 2010

framework, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth matter not just directly but because …

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Growth in a Time of Debt

Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2010

We study economic growth and inflation at different levels of government and external debt. Our analysis is based on new data on forty-four countries spanning about two hundred years. The dataset incorporates over 3,700 annual observations covering a wide range of political systems,...

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Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth : A Long Run View

Bordo, Michael D. - 2009

Foreign currency debt is widely believed to increase risks of financial crisis, especially after being implicated as a cause of the East Asian crisis in the late 1990s. In this paper, we study the effects of foreign currency debt on currency and debt crises and its indirect short and long run...

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