entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity … other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural … earned in the primary goods sector. Second, by shifting the distribution of political power from resource owners towards the …

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been …

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been …

verursacht haben könnten, wobei er insbesondere die deutsche und österreichische Entwicklung vergleicht und die Rolle der …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal …'s political elite. We build a theoretical framework where factors of production owned by the political elites differ across …

recent research focusing on actual decision and implementation processes, and on the political institutions and state and … features that seem to determine development depends on the workings of political institutions, which define how the …

developed here indicates that this ability depends on several characteristics of political institutions, such as congressional …

) or countries' formal institutions (e.g., political regime, electoral system), the variables in this database reflect the … workings of political institutions, using a logic emphasizing intertemporal political compromise. The paper also contrasts this …

elite. We provide two pieces of evidence consistent with the theory. First, we revisit the development of the English state …