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Crowding-out during the British Industrial Revolution has long been one of the leading explanations for slow growth …, and that the magnitude of the effect is important enough to explain at least partly why British growth during the period …
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The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various...
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liability regime under s52 of the Trade Practices Act, to a due diligence regime under the Corporations Law. I argue that due …
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Exchange risk hedging in a static (i.e. one-period) setting is extremely straightforward. The variance-minimizing hedge of a particular future cash flow involves a forward contract equal but opposite in sign to the exposure of the cash flow. The exposure is the regression coefficient of the cash...
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with … realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with …
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This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …, which has been marked by its colonization experience. Next I discuss the potential growth impact of state fragility, a …
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A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the … economic growth by raising total factor productivity, but its impact is only transitory. Several predictions on the evolution …
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Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional...
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-financial sector to fund the bailout may be inefficient since it weakens its incentive to invest, decreasing growth. Instead, the …
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