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Agricultural productivity and economic development : the contribution of clover to structural transformation in Denmark
Dall Schmidt, Torben; Jensen, Peter Sandholt; Naz, Amber - In: Journal of economic growth 23 (2018) 4, pp. 387-426
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025308
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135194
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present in come differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052454
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Financial Systems and Economic Development in Historical Perspective
Fohlin, Caroline - 2014
This paper elucidates the key debates surrounding the optimal design of financial systems and institutions: bank-based versus market-based; universal versus specialized banking; relationship versus arms-length banking. The paper also examines the historical pattern of financial system development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044095
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The impact of population, affluence, technology, and urbanization on CO2 emissions across income groups
Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to … results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in the long-term associated … urbanization tend to reduce CO2 emissions in the long-term. The estimated turning point for the urbanization ratio after which CO2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035388
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Unified growth based on the specific factors model
Caspari, Volker; Pertz, Klaus - 2008
The two-sector specific factor model is typically used in the theory of international trade where it helps to clarify the principle of comparative advantage. Instead, we use this model as explicit theoretical framework to explain major trends of long-run economic development. Combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266861
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Unified Growth Based on the Specific Factors Model
Caspari, Volker; Pertz, Klaus - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2008
The two-sector specific factor model is typically used in the theory of international trade where it helps to clarify the principle of comparative advantage. Instead, we use this model as explicit theoretical framework to explain major trends of long-run economic development. Combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464654
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The Myth of 'African Growth Tragedy' : Past, Present and Future
Zhang, Tianze - 2018
In the late 1990s, as economists looked back the development period in Africa since 1970s, they put forward the notion “African growth tragedy” , meaning that Africa's poor growth and resulting low income is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910710