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institutions have been found to be decisive for the break out of stagnation and for explaining cross-country income differences by …
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The so-called 'deep determinants' of economic growth and development (namely, geography, institutions, and integration …
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We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …
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phenomenon with yet unclear impact. We develop a unified framework incorporating economic institutions, human capital and … which a positive change of a country's economic institutions can attract inflows of physical capital from abroad, leading to … institutions can lead to substantial divergence in income over time. We derive conditions under which a country receives inflows of …
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This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …
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In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...
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This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions, and economic development. It discusses the various … recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect trust. …
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Evidence regarding the relationship between distribution, demand, and growth in the short run has been mixed. Open economy models that create the possibility of "beggar-thy-neighbor" growth offer one theoretical explanation for why this may be expected. Several authors have argued recently,...
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underdeveloped markets for capital and information; (2) by discouraging the evolution of the economic and political institutions …
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This study looks at some non-conventional determinants of economic growth, with the help of the newly developed economic freedom index datasets of the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal(HF/WSJ), which is a cumulative index derived from several sub-indices (trade freedom index, financial...
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