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Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, John Luke - 1998
This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471963
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Long-Range Growth : Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links
Campante, Filipe - 2016
We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456027
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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453866
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462106
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R & D and productivity : the econometric evidence
Griliches, Zvi - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480896
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Zoning and the Economic Geography of Cities
Shertzer, Allison - 2016
Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet we know surprisingly little about its long-run impacts. We provide the first attempt to measure the causal effect of land use regulation over the long term, using as our setting Chicago's first (1923) comprehensive zoning ordinance. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456022
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Economic Geography and Reginal Production Structure : An Empirical Investigation
Davis, Donald R. - 1997
featuring market effects trade models to account for the structure of regional production in Japan. We find support for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472721
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Population and economic change in developing countries
Easterlin, Richard Ainley (ed.); Easterlin, Richard A. (ed.) - 1980
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000068130
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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394540
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996