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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...
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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912259
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012
This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub … about the processing of small infrastructure projects requests by sub-municipal governments. The objective of this …, and monitoring small infrastructure project allocations. Second, is to explicitly alter the probability of detecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104056
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The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
may generate an ideological backlash that puts a higher premium on traditional values. We apply the theory to numerous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957510
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A Theory of Conservative Revivals
Iyigun, Murat - 2018
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ideological backlashes and, at other times, progressive social and political movements? We propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906514
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How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014
This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by which more successful firms are replicated at a higher rate. The structure of the model allows to characterize analytically the aggregate dynamics, and to compute the effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042991
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Innovation and the Labor Market : Theory, Evidence and Challenges
Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023
This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348234
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas - 2010
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage productivity and wage growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034624
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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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