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Bankruptcy and small business - lessons from the US and recent reforms
White, Michelle - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 1, pp. 22-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056437
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Economic Growth and Political Survival
Burke, Paul J - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Using data for 160 countries for the period 1963-2001, this paper examines the short-run relationship between economic growth and changes in national leader. To address the potential endogeneity of economic growth, I use exogenous variation in commodity export prices, export partner incomes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643256
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La llegada del PT al gobierno brasileño: ¿un cambio de rumbo respecto a las posibilidades de desarrollo del país?
García, Bibiana Medialdea - HAL - 2013
Este trabajo parte de la idea de que la reproducción del subdesarrollo brasileño se explica por la persistencia de un conjunto de elementos que operan como obstáculos de carácter estructural, a los que nos referimos con el nombre de límites estructurales al desarrollo económico....
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789919
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Flexibility and protectionism. Swedish trade in sugar during the early modern era
Rönnbäck, Klas - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2006
Sugar was of the utmost importance for the development of a transatlantic trade during the early modern era. This working paper explores the impact of institutions and institutional changes of the colonial trade in sugar focusing on one country on the European semi-periphery, namely Sweden....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771157
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
Albouy, David - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2006
In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) evaluate the effect of property rights institutions on national income using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers as an instrument for the risk of capital expropriation. Returning to their original sources, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818079
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Romer’s Charter Cities v. Colonization, Imperialism, and Colonialism: A General Characterization
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
brutal images of failed (neo)colonialism. This essay characterizes colonization, imperialism, and colonialism in order to …, and colonialism. The characterization finds that while colonization, imperialism, and colonialism share strong historical …-city model is voluntary participation of all players. Colonization, imperialism, and colonialism were forceful and repressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919771
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Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run
Jerven, Morten - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2011
Until recently, most economists work on Africa has taken 1960 as the starting point because data on national income and similar derivates are only available back to this point. To date, the quantitative literature on Africa has made heroic leaps of faith, asserting causal relationships across...
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The Future of South African Economic History
Fourie, Johan; Schirmer, Stefan - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2012
This note reviews the state and future of South African economic history. We argue that although new techniques, archival sources, international interest and a greater propensity to collaborate within and across disciplines have stimulated new research over the last decade, overcoming our...
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The causal relationship between house prices and growth in the nine provinces of South Africa: evidence from panel - Granger causality tests
Chang, Tsangyao; Simo-Kengne, Beatrice D.; Gupta, Rangan - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 4, pp. 345-358
This paper analyses the causal relationship between housing activity and growth in nine provinces of South Africa for the period 1995-2011, using panel causality analysis, which accounts for cross-section dependency and heterogeneity across provinces. Our empirical results support unidirectional...
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