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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007

This paper studies the joint effect of economic and political inequalities on redistributive taxation and institutional quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The...

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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies

Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...

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A conceptual framework for measuring airline business model convergence

Daft, Jost; Albers, Sascha - 2012

structures and, based on this conceptualization, for assessing the potential convergence of airline business models over time is … of business models can be supported. This paper extends the mostly qualitative and anecdotal literature on convergence in … the airline industry and provides a platform for further empirical convergence studies. …

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Promiscuous elites and economic development

Brezis, Elise S. - 2012

This paper analyzes the interconnection between elites and its effects on economic growth. For decades, the bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has been termed the revolving door in English, pantouflage in...

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Growing into and out of Social Conflict

Harms, Philipp; Zink, Stefan - 2002

We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average wealth and the likelihood of radical redistribution: while the net benefits of redistribution for members of the poor class are small at low stages of development, a shift towards...

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Climatic fluctuations and the diffusion of agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2013

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

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Natural selection and the origin of economic growth

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2000

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni…ed theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long...

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Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit and the process of development

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2006

evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contribution to the convergence of the …

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Evolution and the growth process: Natural selection of entrepreneurial traits

Galor, Oded - 2011

evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …

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What do exogenous shocks tell us about growth theories?

Noy, Ilan; Nualsri, Aekkanush - 2007

The sources of economic growth and development have been puzzling economists from the modern dawn of the profession. While the Solow-Swan neo-classical model dominated research on growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s saw the emergence of growth theories that disputed, largely on theoretical...

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