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Two to Tangle : Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2021
-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324919
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Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment : A New Hypothesis
Bellou, Andriana - 2019
The cohorts of women born at the turn of the 20th century increased markedly their participation in the labor market when older. These are the first cohorts who worked after their childbearing years. In this paper, we document a link between their work behavior and the Great Depression. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894548
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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
Bellou, Andriana - 2014
The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039578
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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China'S Great Boom as a Historical Process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2021
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314817
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Growth, Volatility and Political Instability : Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896-2000
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show that while assassinations and strikes (what we call quot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766848
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From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina Since the 1890s
Campos, Nauro F. - 2014
Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing … growth trajectory of Argentina over the last century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042993
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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela : Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
Fields, Gary; Duval-Hernandez, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - 2021
economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … individuals that experience large positive earnings gains when the economy is growing are the same as those that experience large … earnings losses when the economy is contracting; this is the "symmetry of mobility" hypothesis. We find very occasional support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316682
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Then and Now : Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms
Gregory, Robert - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120401