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Vote-buying and growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show … that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty as taxed wealthy people buy votes from poor people. We then show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762209
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Child labor and the education of a society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001
established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work full-time and no human capital accumulation takes place, with … continuous growth at an asymptotically steady rate as an alternative. We show that a society can escape from the poverty trap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001627390
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Vote-buying and growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 15 (2011) 5, pp. 656-680
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Can democracy induce development? : a constitutional perspective
Gersbach, Hans; Siemers, Lars - In: Public choice 159 (2014) 1/2, pp. 177-196
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Land reforms and economic development
Gersbach, Hans; Siemers, Lars - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 14 (2010) 4, pp. 527-547
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Land reforms and economic development
Gersbach, Hans; Siemers, Lars - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003153545
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Vote-Buying and Growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show … that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty as taxed wealthy people buy votes from poor people. We then show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753158
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Untimely destruction: pestilence, war and accumulation in the long run
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Komarov, Evgenij - 2019
altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling and reproducible capital. A poverty trap exists for a wide range of …
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Climate policy and development
Gersbach, Hans; Hummel, Noemi - 2010 - This version: November 2009
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Climate Policy and Development
Gersbach, Hans - 2015
We propose a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...
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