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Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
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This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...
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Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking …
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make the economy less stable at the aggregate level. As in Nelson and Winter (1982), firms differ in their labor … explain the key results. Optimal selectivity is larger, the less "cobweb unstable" the economy, i.e. the more elastic the …
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Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...
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's low levels of financial and institutional development, state-dominated economy, and nondemocratic government …. Notwithstanding the inefficient and risky growth model, the government has maneuvered the economy around various stresses without any …
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distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels …
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This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change … economy or the more they can coordinate their actions, the higher their profits. Labor is used in production or Ramp;D. All … involuntary unemployment. Both workers and firms lobbythe central planner of the economy which affects firms' and unions' market …
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
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