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regions rich in marine resources differ from societies with a purely agrarian legacy in terms of institutions, cultural values …
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all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …
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This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in … a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation …. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk cost-intensive industries, where producers are more …
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This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Church property that occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in delaying the reallocation of property rights in the aftermath of fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a...
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Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates … during transition rises in countries where reforming institutions is particularly costly. -- start-ups ; dynamic search model …
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This paper analyses an open economy Ramsey model with an endogenous labour supply without capital. The technology defines an optimal firm size. Changes to the number of firms is subject to adjustment costs, so that the entry dynamics is determined endogenously. We find that there is a short run...
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institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure …
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given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …
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sample of Indian manufacturing firms. -- globalization ; uncertainty ; training ; labor markets ; India …
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The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) - major drivers …
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