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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645955
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2015
This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe … of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … the beneficial e.ects of institutions, mitigating the adverse e.ects of non-cohesiveness, its simultaneous contribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333029
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence : A Comparative Analysis of State Building in China and Japan after 1850
Koyama, Mark; Moriguchi, Chiaki; Sng, Tuan-Hwee - 2015
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development and state building in China and Japan during the second half of the nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but also fundamentally threatened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132189
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2010
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signifcant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669250
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530753
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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative development reflected by nighttime light intensity
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
This research establishes that migratory distance from the cradle of anatomically modern humans in East Africa and its effect on the distribution of genetic diversity across countries has a hump-shaped effect on nighttime light intensity per capita as observed by satellites, reflecting the...
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013
This research advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the prehistoric exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory distance to various settlements across the globe affected genetic diversity and has had a long-lasting hump-shaped effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093472
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Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2008
This research contributes to the understanding of human genetic diversity within a society as a significant determinant of its economic development. The hypothesis advanced and empirically examined in this paper suggests that there are socioeconomic trade-offs associated with genetic diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725734
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On the Link between the Volatility and Skewness of Growth
Bekaert, Geert - 2018
In a sample of 110 countries over the period 1960–2009, we document a positive relation between the volatility and skewness of growth in the cross-section. This novel stylized fact is related to two distinct mechanisms: sudden growth spurts in emerging markets, and sharp financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938656