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Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

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Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2002

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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Can't we all be more like Scandinavians? : asymmetric growth and institutions in an interdependent world

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

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Why did the West extend the franchise? : democracy, inequality and growth in historical perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 1998

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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not adopt Scandinavian-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent...

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The consequences of radical reform : the French revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Johnson, Simon; … - 2009

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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Robinson, James A.; … - 2009

the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various …

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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then...

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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly. One concern associated with these (potentially transformative) technological changes is that they will be disequalizing - as many technologies of the last several decades have been - creating superstar teachers and a winner-take-all...

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