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Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
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This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
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China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …
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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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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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benign international environment, this approach makes it unlikely that the economy will face a collapse in growth. But there …, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …
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China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country …'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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This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
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Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
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In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three years, 1994 to 1996. Our motivation is to gain insight into the functioning of the labor market and how workers are coping during this period of economic liberalization and...
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