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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring
Acemoglu, Daron; Hassan, Tarek; Tahoun, Ahmed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
. According to our preferred interpretation, these events provide evidence that, under weak institutions, popular mobilization and …
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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
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The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789
Bosker, Maarten; Buringh, Eltjo; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
. Active pre-1800 parliaments also enhanced the quality of democratic institutions in the nineteenth and early twentieth …
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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A Model of Equilibrium Institutions
Guimarães, Bernardo; Sheedy, Kevin D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Institutions that serve the interests of an elite are often cited as an important reason for poor economic performance …. This paper builds a model of institutions that allocate resources and power to maximize the payoff of an elite, but where … any group that exerts sufficient fighting effort can launch a rebellion that destroys the existing institutions. The …
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
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How Effective Is Monetary Transmission in Developing Countries? A Survey of the Empirical Evidence
Mishra, Prachi; Montiel, Peter J; Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper surveys the evidence on the effectiveness of monetary transmission in developing countries. We summarize the arguments for expecting the bank lending channel to be the dominant means of monetary transmission in such countries, and present a simple model that suggests why this channel...
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Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
the answer may be no is that countries pursuing poor macroeconomic policies also have weak ‘institutions’, including … political institutions that do not constrain politicians and political elites, ineffective enforcement of property rights for … more ‘extractive’ institutions from their colonial past were more likely to experience high volatility and economic crises …
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Policy Volatility, Institutions and Economic Growth
Fatás, Antonio; Mihov, Ilian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
only because they serve as proxies for institutions. While we confirm their results using levels of policy variables … growth by about 0.75 percentage points. Political institutions have a role to play to the extent that they shape policy …
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