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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports
Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...
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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent … sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment … and shifts in political power. Specifically, we start with a culture set, which consists of attributes and the feasible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533381
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
% through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory. Second, it increased decentralization of decision making, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394862
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394918
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471281
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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
Hulten, Charles R. - 1999
We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry
Arora, Ashish - 1999
A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471530
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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance
Khanna, Tarun - 1999
-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471852
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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...
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Labor Rationing
Breza, Emily; Kaur, Supreet; Shamdasani, Yogita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper measures excess labor supply in equilibrium. We examine hiring shocks--which employ 24% of the labor force in external month-long jobs--in Indian local labor markets. In peak months, wages increase instantaneously and local aggregate employment declines. In lean months, consistent...
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