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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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Adam Smith's Industrial Organization of Religion : Explaining the Medieval Church's Monopoly and Its Breakdown in the Reformation

Weingast, Barry R. - 2015

, institutions, and competition surrounding the medieval Church. To understand the relationship between the secular and ecclesiastic …

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Gifts as governance : Church Welfare and the Samaritan's dilemma

Goodman, Nathan P.; Herzberg, Roberta Q. - In: Journal of institutional economics 16 (2020) 5, pp. 703-714

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Secularization and long-run economic growth

Strulik, Holger - 2015 - Revised Version: March 2015

This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...

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Determinant of social norms

Voigt, Stefan - 2022

development of social norms, and suggests that religion and family organization are potential mediators. It turns out that many …. Given that successful economic development presupposes the congruence between formal institutions and social norms, this …

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Was Domar right? : serfdom and factor endowments in Bohemia

Klein, Alexander; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2017

endowments significantly influenced serfdom. Institutions, we conclude, are shaped partly by economic fundamentals. …

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Non-linearity between life insurance and economic development : a revisited approach

Chang, Chi-hung; Lee, Chien-chiang - In: The Geneva risk and insurance review 37 (2012) 2, pp. 223-257

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The importance of e ective states : state capacity and economic development

Noort, Sam van - 2018 - This version: March 13, 2018

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The interaction of individual values and sticky formal institutions in economic development

Kapás, Judit - In: European journal of comparative economics 16 (2019) 1, pp. 41-67

(proxied by individual values) interacts with the stickiest formal institutions in development, which leads to a very special …-togetherness" of values and institutions. Besides establishing that both values and sticky formal institutions are strong determinants … of long-run income, I find that the "stuck-togetherness" of values and institutions acts as a separate factor in …

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Developmental rent management analysis : learning, upgrading, and innovation

Ngoc Ngo, Christine - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 50 (2016) 4, pp. 1045-1068

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