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Development, Structure, and Transformation : Some Evidence on Comparative Economic Growth

McCord, Gordon C. - 2013

We suggest that the geographical patterns of income differences across the world have deep underpinnings. We emphasize that economic development is a complex process driven by economic, political, social, and biophysical forces. Some economists have argued that the patterns reflect mainly the...

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 2014

Africa and Sweden to illustrate that inequality dynamics cannot be understood without embedding economic factors in the …

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Institutional Comparative Statics

Robinson, James Alan; Torvik, Ragnar - 2011

Why was the Black Death followed by the decline of serfdom in Western Europe but its' intensification in Eastern Europe? What explains why involvement in Atlantic trade in the Early Modern period was positively correlated with economic growth in Britain but negatively correlated in Spain? Why...

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China : An Institutional View of an Unusual Macroeconomy

Dollar, David - 2014

China presents several macroeconomic patterns that appear inconsistent with standard stylized facts about economic …

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How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries

Helliwell, John F. - 2014

footprint effects for immigrants' confidence in political institutions. Taken together, these findings support the notion that …

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Fear of Sudden Stops : Lessons from Australia and Chile

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Cowan, Kevin; Kearns, Jonathan - 2021

vulnerability, drawing lessons from a detailed comparison of the response of Chile and Australia to recent external shocks and from … useful to identify and then distinguish between two inter-related dimensions of investors' confidence: country-trust and … to improve along these two dimensions of investors' confidence in the medium run, and policies to reduce the impact of …

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--

King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...

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Practical Monetary Policy : Examples from Sweden and the United States

Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2012

In the summer of 2010, the Federal Reserve's and the Swedish Riksbank's inflation forecasts were below the former's mandate-consistent rate and the latter's target, respectively, and their unemployment forecasts were above sustainable rates. Given the mandates of the Federal Reserve and the...

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