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Engineering Growth : Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Valencia Caicedo, Felipe - 2021

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

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Market Integration As a Mechanism of Growth

Keller, Wolfgang - 2016

In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...

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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 …

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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

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

Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

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Political Regime Change, Economic Reform and Growth Accelerations

Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2011

Using an improved definition and indicator of growth accelerations, we examine whether political regimes, regime changes, and economic reform are related to growth accelerations. Our results show that economic growth accelerations are preceded by economic reforms. Furthermore, we find that...

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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 Rules Too! Economic Development and the Geography of Institutions

Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021

To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This paper sheds a different light on these determinants. We use spatial econometrics to analyse the importance of the...

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Financial Development and Inequality in the Global Economy

von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2016

We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...

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