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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael - 2009

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...

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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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30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Ursachen für Konvergenz und Divergenz zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland

Schnabl, Gunther; Sepp, Tim - 2019

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, no full convergence of the economic performance and the living conditions … discusses possible reasons for the lack of convergence such as the legacy of the planned economy, economic policy mistakes made … erosion of market forces are discussed. This leads to economic policy recommendations to achieve full convergence of the …

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Structural development accounting

Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...

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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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The demographic transition and the emergence of sustained economic growth

Galor, Oded - 2004

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

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Financial flows and international imbalances: The role of catching up by late-industrializing developing countries

Kregel, Jan - 2008

While the traditional approach to the adjustment of international imbalances assumes industrialized countries at a similar level of development and with similar production structures, such imbalances have historically been the result of a process of catching up by late-industrializing developing...

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Does the shadow economy raise observed aggregate efficiency? A cross-country comparison

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich G.; … - 2006

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...

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Population dynamics and economic growth: Should we adopt different frameworks for poor and rich countries?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2011

From the canonical model of Becker onward, models of population dynamics have been based on assumptions which fit the family structure of developed countries. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework that fits the family structure of poor countries. The building blocks of the model...

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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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