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Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner - 2018

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic … productivity, cultural beliefs and institutions. In our model, production shocks that benefit one sector of the economy may induce …

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The ideological roots of institutional change

Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared - 2017

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do … institutions. When new technologies emerge, uncertainty results from a lack of understanding how the technology will fit with … prevailing ideologies and institutions. This uncertainty discourages investment in institutions and the cultural capital …

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An evolutionary view on social innovation and the process of economic change

Reinstaller, Andreas - 2013

The concepts social innovation and social entrepreneurship have gained considerable attention both in different fields of academic research and in the context of the development of economic and social policies. However, despite its wide-spread use there does not exist a unique or at least widely...

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Productivity growth and class struggle in a growth regime framework : a proposal for a varieties of productivity regimes approach applied to Germany and the US from 1991 to 2022

Blees, Philip - 2025

productivity growth and its variation within capitalist economies. The aim is to identify how institutions steer productivity … growth. Based on the vast literature demonstrating that institutions not only have a direct impact on the innovative …

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Tech Reg : Rules for the Digital Economy

Evans, David S. - 2021

Tech Reg refers to the regulation of internet-connected digital businesses and the discipline that studies the when, and how, to do that. It covers areas as diverse as big tech, crypto, fintech, gig, misinformation, privacy, and telemedicine. It will expand over the coming decades as the digital...

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Institutions, holdup and automation

Presidente, Giorgio - 2019

This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in … a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation …. The relationship between institutions and robots is stronger in sunk cost-intensive industries, where producers are more …

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Identity Technologies : A Transaction Cost Approach

Berg, Chris - 2020

Identity is an input into economic exchange and contracting. The modern industrial economy has relies on cheap political identity to create trust and lower transaction costs. Market economies, however, have different identity needs than an administrative state. Economic efficiency in a digital...

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Patterns of total factor productivity growth in Mexico : 1991-2011

Ramos, Luis Fernando Colunga; Torre Cepeda, Leonardo Egidio - 2015

We review some patterns of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the Mexican economy during the period 1991-2011 using the KLEMS data set published by INEGI in 2013. The data shows a strong positive correlation between TFP and output growth. As a result, tests were performed in order to...

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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...

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Takeoffs, landing, and economic growth

Pakrashi, Debayan; Frijters, Paul - 2017

Economic growth in the East Asian economies was remarkable during the latter part of the 20th century, starting with Japan just after World War II, followed by the East Asian Tigers and "tiger cubs" after that and, most recently, the People's Republic of China and India. The high, sustained...

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