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Chapter 3. Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2014
What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world’s technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...
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Kin-Networks and Institutional Development
Schulz, Jonathan - 2022
This study provides evidence that strong kin networks are detrimental for democratic participatory institutions and that the medieval Catholic Church’s marriage regulations dissolved Europe’s clan-based kin networks which contributed to the emergence of participatory institutions. I show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309057
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2007
innovation and their ability in fostering industrialization, the proposed theory suggests that the desirable degree of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051236
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Culture, Growth and Economic Policy
Petrakis, Panagiotis E. - 2014
Costs and Economic Institutions -- The Effects of Culture, Transactions and Institutions on Opportunity Entrepreneurship …Introduction -- The Foundations: Human Needs and Cultural Background -- Culture in Economic Thinking -- Cultural …
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Culture, growth and economic policy
Petrakēs, Panagiōtēs E. - 2014
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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 2012
In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and unprecedented rates. The present paper develops a simple...
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The deep historical roots of macroeconomic volatility
Tang, Sam Hak Kan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui - 2016
We present cross-country evidence that a country's macroeconomic volatility, measured either by the standard deviation of output growth or the occurrence of trend-growth breaks, is significantly affected by the country's historical variables. In particular, countries with longer histories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447664
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The Deep Historical Roots of Macroeconomic Volatility
Tang, Sam Hak Kan - 2016
We present cross-country evidence that a country's macroeconomic volatility, measured either by the standard deviation of output growth or the occurrence of trend-growth breaks, is significantly affected by the country's historical variables. In particular, countries with longer histories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995209