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This study analyzes how state capacity shapes the local impact of national policies by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the regional expansion of the state. It uses the local discontinuity created by the boundary of the largest peasant rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state...
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184424
as growth models have been different. The major objective of this paper is to compare the policies, institutions …, policies and institutions since last three decades. …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Augusto Pinochet's autocracy on the Chilean economy. The study compares outcomes under Pinochet's leadership with those in a synthetic counterfactual made of a weighted average of countries with similar characteristics. I find that, relative to the control,...
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historical data from Maddison to confirm a link between political institutions and propensity to experience large swings in … growth. We also study the role of institutions and macroeconomic policies, such as inflation, openness to trade, size of … stagnation. Moreover, these effects are nonlinear and dependent on the quality of institutions. We conclude by highlighting …
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liberalisation in stable democratic institutions. As a catalyst and anchor for critical market reforms and institutional …
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institutions and power relationships for long-run growth-and for stagnation. …
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institutions and power relationships for long-run growth — and for stagnation …
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seriously considers the role of institutions and power relationships for long-run growth. In illustrating Steindl …
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