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Do Institutions Matter? Estimating the Effects of Institutions on Economic Performance in China
Fang, Ying; Zhao, Yang - 2007
This paper estimates the effects of institutions on economic performance with the cross-city data of China. We argue … that China's ongoing reform belongs to the long historical transition from antiquity to modern society, which started one … missionary lower primary schools in China in 1919 as the instrument for present institutions. Employing the two-stage least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053365
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Do institutions matter? : estimating the effect of institutions on economic performance in China
Fang, Ying; Zhao, Yang - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872314
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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data
Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021
We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508730
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571204
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Institutions Do Not Rule : Reassessing the Driving Forces of Economic Development
Luo, Jinfeng - 2019
The pursuit to uncover the driving forces behind cross-country income gaps has divided economists into two major camps: One emphasizes institutions, while the other stresses non-institutional forces such as geography. Each school of thought has its own theoretical foundation and empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012904083
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Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India : Evidence from Night Lights Data
Ranjan, Priya; Talathi, Karan - 2021
We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231963
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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2021
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315896
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472013
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Resource curse or not : a question of appropriability
Boschini, Anne D. (contributor); Pettersson, Jan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper shows that whether natural resources are good or bad for a country's development depends crucially on the interaction between institutional setting and the type of resources that the country possesses. Some natural resources are for economical and technical reasons more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001788950