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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450834
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When is a state predatory?
Robinson, James A. - 1999
I argue that whether or not a state is predatory hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this gives those who initially hold political power an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781676
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Towards behavioral political economy of institutional change : with field facts from China
Zhang, Yongjing; Wang, Mei - 2014
behavioral coordination game between local officials and private businessmen. With field facts in China, this study suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404541
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The clan and the corporation : sustaining cooperation in China and Europe
Greif, Avner; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2015
Over the last millennium, the clan and the corporation have been the loci of cooperation in China and Europe …
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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation
Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016
The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...
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Law, human capital and the emergence of free city-states in medieval Italy
Belloc, Marianna; Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2017 - This version: November 6, 2017
In this paper, we study how the birth of the first universities in Italy affected the emergence of the Italian free cities-states (the commune) in the period 1000-1300 a.d. Exploiting a panel dataset of 121 cities, we show that after the foundation of a new university the distance between each...
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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444894
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Promotion of trade and Investments between China and India : the case of Southwest China and East and Northeast India
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath (contributor);  … - 2005
Open regionalism and integration between the world’s two largest developing countries - the People’s Republic of China … (China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic … economic integration between China and India involving common neighbouring countries could be increasing. This paper discusses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003113285
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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019
China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that … analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …
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