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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 … provision of schooling are typically lower in an open than in a closed economy. Moreover, we find that, under openness to trade …, development is faster in a democratic system. We also endogenize the trade regime and demonstrate that, in political equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273741
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267484
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Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition
Raiser, Martin; Schaffer, Mark E.; Schuchhardt, Johannes - 2003
The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources and deep changes in the structure of production and employment. This paper uses a simple model of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276430
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270049
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Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been … provision of schooling are typically lower in an open than in a closed economy. Moreover, we find that, under openness to trade …, development is faster in a democratic system. We also endogenize the trade regime and demonstrate that, in political equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566427
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268767
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The shift to services : a review of the literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003
The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ?classics?, however (Fisher (1935), Clark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261657
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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Svejnar, Jan - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269250
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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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