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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization

Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of geography on the transition process in authoritarian political … geography on political power shifting. The paper provides a rationale for the counterintuitive fact that the first authoritarian …

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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael - 2009

, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a …

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On the geographic and cultural determinants of bankruptcy

Buehler, Stefan; Kaiser, Christian; Jaeger, Franz - 2007

This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the …

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Land inequality and the emergence of human capital promoting institutions

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005

This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...

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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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Trade liberalisation and global-scale forest transition

González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

worldwide level, in a trade liberalisation scenario. Our model has economic geography foundations: transport costs affect the …

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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations

Bluedorn, John C.; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and signiﬁcant...

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First Nature vs. Second Nature Causes: Industry Location and Growth in the Presence of an Open-Access Renewable Resource

González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper we present a model integrating characteristics of the New Economic Geography, the theory of endogenous …

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New facts for old debates: Farm size and productivity in US agriculture

Temel, Tugrul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in U.S. agriculture during 1982-92. A nonparametric regression method is applied to detect ex-post geographical patterns in changes in farm size and productivity. The estimations show that (i) in 1982 productivity per acre...

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Geography, Institutions and Human Development: A Cross-Country Investigation Using Bayesian Model Averaging

Malik, Sadia Mariam; Janjua, Yasin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the role of long standing institutions – identified through geography, disease ecology, colonial … institutions. Some of the other measures of climate and geography as well as those of colonial legacy are important as long as we … spending on health and education; fertility rates; and measures of health infrastructure, the importance of geography and …

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