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role of institutions and macroeconomic policies in determining this sequence. We analyze the joint effect of policies and … institutions on the frequency of the four growth regimes: stable growth, stagnation, crisis and miracle-like fast growth. The … results confirm the importance of institutions for growth but also show that macro-policies; inflation, trade openness, size …
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finds evidence that colonies with better paid colonial governors developed better institutions (and became wealthier) than …
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The link between economic growth and institutions has been studied for more than ten years. Our goal is to take stock …
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Growth in low-income developing economies with large sectors charac- terized by underemployment is unlikely to be wage-led in the traditional neo-Kaleckian sense of the term. Output and employment in the sectors of the economy producing non-tradable output could be demand-led, how- ever, and...
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Evidence regarding the relationship between distribution, demand, and growth in the short run has been mixed. Open economy models that create the possibility of "beggar-thy-neighbor" growth offer one theoretical explanation for why this may be expected. Several authors have argued recently,...
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The 1980s saw the publication of several very influential works within the post keynesian tradition on growth and distribution. With Kaleckian mark-up pricing, and a flexible rate of capacity utilization in the investment function, these models indicated that wages and growth are negatively...
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A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...
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This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...
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institutions on development, the costs of fractionalization, and research on the policies of social inclusion around the world …. -- shared societies ; economic inclusion ; institutions ; economic growth ; income distribution …
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underdeveloped markets for capital and information; (2) by discouraging the evolution of the economic and political institutions …
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