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From Mine to Coast : Transport Infrastructure and the Direction of Trade in Developing Countries

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2013

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European Trade, Colonialism and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770-1900

Cappelli, Gabriele - 2017

trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been … quickly than inner areas. This pattern was affected by French early colonialism and by the reaction of different West African …

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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael - 2021

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...

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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

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Why Does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to Be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis

Kollmann, Andrea - 2010

There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...

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Tullock Challenges : Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges." The first relates to method: The measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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How to Tame Two Leviathans? - Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure

Galletta, Sergio - 2012

We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …

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Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy

Liu, Xuepeng - 2013

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy …

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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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Resource Rents, Democracy and Corruption : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …

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