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Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact : A Field Experiment

Finseraas, Henning - 2019

We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results...

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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...

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Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from the great inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2004

Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...

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The Neoclassical Model and the Welfare Costs of Selection

Collard, Fabrice; Licandro, Omar - 2021

This paper embeds firm dynamics into the Neoclassical model and provides a simple framework to solve for the transitional dynamics of economies moving towards more selection. As in the Neoclassical model, markets are perfectly competitive, there is only one good and two production factors...

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Tasks, Technology, and Factor Prices in the Neoclassical Production Sector

Irmen, Andreas - 2020

This paper introduces tasks into the neoclassical production sector. Competitive firms choose the profit-maximizing amounts of factor-specific tasks that determine their factor demands and output supplies. We show that the effect of factor-augmenting technical change on relative and absolute...

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The Neoclassical Growth of China

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Ohanian, Lee E.; Yao, Wen - 2023

This paper studies China’s four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we argue that China’s growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very quickly. Second, we show that a minimalist...

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Monitoring a common agent : implications for financial contracting

Khalil, Fahad; Martimort, David; Parigi, Bruno Maria - 2005

We study the problem of multiple principals who want to obtain income from a privately informed agent and design their contracts non-cooperatively. Our analysis reveals that the degree of coordination between principals has strong implications for the shapes of contracts and the amount of...

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Wealth-Income Ratios in Free Market Capitalism : Switzerland, 1900-2020

Baselgia, Enea; Martinez, Isabel - 2022

We estimate the ratio of private wealth to national income, βpt, for Switzerland from 1900 to 2020. Our results indicate that over the 20th century, βpt did not follow a U-shaped pattern as in most European countries. Instead, its was exceptionally stable at around 500%. We argue that this...

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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection

Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004

provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …

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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido - 2005

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …

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