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Financial Development and the Composition of Industrial Growth
Fisman, Raymond - 2003
We re-examine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. Specifically, we propose the use of a new methodology that looks at the co-movement in growth rates across pairs of countries to examine the role of financial development in allowing firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469127
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461848
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Princes and Merchants : European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution
De Long, J. Bradford - 1993
As measured by the pace of city growth in western Europe from 1000 to 1800. absolutist monarchs stunted the growth of commerce and industry. A region ruled by an absolutist prince saw its total urban population shrink by one hundred thousand people per century relative to a region without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474688
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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience
Young, Alwyn - 1994
of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474252
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794598
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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Branstetter, Lee - 2009
This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463256
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Flowers of Evil? Industrial Development and Long-Run Prosperity
Franck, Raphaël - 2017
This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454981
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456543
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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect
Temin, Peter - 2014
technology of industrialization was adapted to these factor prices and is not profitable in low-wage economies. The cross-over to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458546
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Monks, Gents and Industrialists : The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2015
We examine the long-run economic impact of the Dissolution of the English monasteries in 1535, which is plausibly linked to the commercialization of agriculture and the location of the Industrial Revolution. Using monastic income at the parish level as our explanatory variable, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457218