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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence
Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316495
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Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 - c.1840
Deng, Kent G.; O'Brien, Patrick Karl - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401713
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001168
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051272
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051273
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The Kuznetsian Paradigm for the study of modern economic history and the great divergence with appendices of literature review and statistical data
Deng, Kent G.; O'Brien, Patrick Karl - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800908
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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam
Borcan, Oana - 2013
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred …-stake exam taking place shortly after the wage announcement. To measure corruption we compare changes in exam outcomes from 2009 … induced better exam outcomes in public than in private schools and we attribute this difference to increased corruption by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089162
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Bairoch revisited. tariff structure and growth in the late 19th century
Tena Junguito, Antonio - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003972490