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Economic Growth, Innovation, Cultural Diversity. What Are We All Talking About? A Critical Survey of the State-of-the-art

Maignan, Carole Juliette (contributor); … - 2003

This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME - Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission - FP5 - Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...

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Patience and prosperity

Strulik, Holger - 2009

This paper introduces wealth-dependent time preference into a simple model of endogenous growth. The model generates adjustment dynamics in line with the historical facts on savings and economic growth in Europe from the High Middle Ages to today. Along a virtuous cycle of development more...

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Poolability and the finance-growth nexus: A cautionary note

Schiavo, Stefano; Vaona, Andrea - 2006

The present contribution tests whether countries can be pooled when studying the finance-growth nexus. Overall, our results point toward a 'pragmatic' positive answer, though considerable heterogeneity is present among developing countries.

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Institutionen und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung

Eger, Thomas (contributor) - 2003

Zunächst werden einige mögliche Zusammenhänge zwischen Institutionen und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung diskutiert und … Entwicklung nicht durch ein höheres Maß an freiwilliger Kooperation und ein geringeres Maß an staatlicher Regulierung positiv … zweiten Teil untersucht Uwe Vollmer, auf welche Weise Institutionen des Finanzsystems die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung …

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Inequality in land ownership, the emergence of human capital promoting institutions, and the great divergence

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2006

This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of land ownership adversely affected the emergence of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling) and thus the pace and the nature of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, contributing to the...

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