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Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth
Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
studying institutions and technological innovation and examining how human capital and institutional constraints affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787003
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Open Source Software and Economic Growth: A Classical Division of Labor Perspective
Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Limam, Yasmina Reem; Thomassen, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The article turns to classical economic insights on the division of labor and to institutional reasoning to identify some costs and benefits of Open Source Software (OSS) and proprietary software production. It suggests that, thanks to its licenses, OSS favors market expansion more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623496
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Do Institutions Impact Innovation?
Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
the links between innovation and institutions. Using cross-country data and the instrumental variable method, this study … boost an economy’s rate of innovation. Most of the previous literature on institutional and economic performance finds a … of institutions on innovation spillover to the growth rate of GDP per capita, this paper shows evidence of a growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619367
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Reconciling Acemoglu and Sachs: geography, institutions and technology
Veiseh, Nima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper attempts to reconcile two models for sustainable economic growth in developing countries. I develop an empirical and theoretical case for how the geographic landscape of a country determines the ease with which it can assimilate foreign technologies and establish institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322660
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How Does Democracy fare with Economic Welfare for a Trading Nation?
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper examines how political institutions in comparison to legal, social and economic institutions fare with different measures of inequality in a cross section framework. The empirical analysis suggests that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal outcomes especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835603
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The Shadowing Role of Redistributive Institutions in the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Redistribution
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper first points out the lack of consensus between empirical and theoretical studies of income inequality and redistribution. While theoretical papers show that income inequality increases redistribution, empirical studies fail to confirm the same result. The paper later shows that even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506912
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The Role of Efficiency of Redistributive Institutions on Redistribution: An Empirical Assessment
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In spite of both theoretical and empirical contributions to investigate the determinants of redistribution, an important gap remains in the literature, which is the effect of efficiency of redistributive institutions on redistribution. This paper is an attempt to show that the state apparatus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506922
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Institutional Requirements for Market-led Development in Latin America
Cimoli, Mario; Correa, Nelson; Jorge, Katz; Rogério, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper seeks to provide a systematized framework for the main ideas that have been developed by ECLAC concerning the effects that market-led reforms have had on labour, financial and technology markets. In order to explore these questions further, a research project has been undertaken by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616946
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The Literary Inquisition: The Persecution of Intellectuals and Human Capital Accumulation in China
Koyama, Mark; Xue, Melanie Meng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching-based difference-in-differences estimator, we show that the persecution of scholar-officials led to a decline in the number of examinees at the provincial and prefectural level. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168675
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Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Lessons from Small Open Economies
Morgan, Horatio M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper develops a political economy framework to explain the underlying financial mechanisms through which redistributive policies may affect both the relative level of per capita income growth rates, and the relative stability of growth paths across countries. It proposes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108758