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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645955
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450834
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Determinants of human development : capturing the role of institutions
Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - 2011
' persistent characteristics, such as their institutions. Among our findings are that macroeconomic policies affect development … institutional quality. -- human development ; institutions ; dynamic panel modelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011991
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406570
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Machine learning indices, political institutions, and economic development
Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2018
creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804191
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Culture, institutions and policy
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300553
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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747456
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557658
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Do natural disasters enhance societal trust?
Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - 2012
In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580773