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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of …
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Information and communication technology, agricultural profitability, and child labor in rural Peru
Beuermann, Diether W. - 2013
We estimate the impact of access to information and communication technology on agricultural profitability and child labor among isolated villages in rural Peru. We exploit the timing of an intervention that provided at least one public (satellite) payphone to 6,296 villages that did not...
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The changing nature of firms and governments in a knowledge-based globalization economy
Dunning, John H. - 1998
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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What should we expect from innovation? : a model-based assessment of the environmental and mitigation cost implications of climate-related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …
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High-skilled labour mobility in an era of protectionism : foreign startups and India
Mikherjee, Arpita; Kapoor, Avantika; Parashar, Angana - 2018
participation in India's growth and development towards an innovation economy. It also makes policy recommendations on how India can …
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Insurance and propagation in village networks
Kinnan, Cynthia; Krislert Samphantharak; Townsend, Robert M. - 2020
In village economies, insurance networks are key to smoothing shocks, while production networks can propagate them. The interplay of these networks is crucial. We show that a significant health expenditure shock to one household propagates to other linked households via supply-chain and labor...
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Ability or Finances as Constraints on Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Survival Rates in a Natural Experiment
Andersen, Steffen; Nielsen, Kasper Meisner - 2012
We use a natural experiment in Denmark to test the hypothesis that aspiring entrepreneurs face financial constraints because of low entrepreneurial quality. We identify 304 constrained entrepreneurs who start a business after receiving windfall wealth and examine the performance of these...
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The evolution of owner-entrepreneurs' taxation : five tax regimes over a 160-year period
Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael; … - 2022
entrepreneurship empirically by means of investments made by active owners of closely held firms. Using detailed Swedish tax data, we …
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The political economy of oil and the crisis of the Arab State system
Atzori, Daniel - 2013
This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to...
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