Showing 1 - 10 of 667
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013422894
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447956
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946113
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830630
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002764193
both an engine of growth and a potential barrier to it. As a result, growth in an inverse U-shaped function of the … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621792
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875831
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309123
cross-sectional behavior of the world economy is similar to that of existing exogenous growth models: Cross … their terms of trade. Our estimates imply that, all else equal, a 1 percentage point faster growth is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139207
unskilled workers because it expands the market size for technologies complementing unskilled labor. In the empirically more … unskilled workers in the West depending on elasticities and the equilibrium growth rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165244