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Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic … institutions for growth and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660254
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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739947
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167200
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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288193
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267484
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267547
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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268511
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Cultures, clashes and peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009
Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143
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Institutions and Development : The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273741
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Income, democracy, and critical junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012
institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291403