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Gall, Thomas; Masella, Paolo - In: Journal of Economic Growth 17 (2012) 2, pp. 103-141

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …

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"Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies"

Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2002)

degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and political power in accounting for how fundamental economic institutions … evolved over time. We argue, moreover, that the roots of these disparities in the extent of inequality lay in differences in … with more extreme inequality or heterogeneity in the population were more likely to develop institutional structures that …

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …

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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

Acemoglu, Daron; Hassan, Tarek; Tahoun, Ahmed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

During Egypt's Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak's government and ushered in an era of competition between three groups: elites associated with Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), the military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood....

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A Model of Equilibrium Institutions

Guimarães, Bernardo; Sheedy, Kevin D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

of economic activity depend on protecting private property from expropriation, but the model predicts this can only be …

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Institutional and structural determinants of investment worldwide

Lim, Jamus Jerome - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 41 (2014) C, pp. 160-177

This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. We introduce these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and...

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Global distribution and dynamics of economic freedom: Non-parametric approach

Kešeljević, Aleksandar; Spruk, Rok - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 560-571

The paper exploits the distributional dynamics and structural changes in the endogenous distribution of economic freedom across countries over time by utilizing the Rosenblatt–Parzen Kernel density estimator compared to the original distribution based on the methodology proposed by the...

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Convergence and Modernization Revisited

Barro, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This "beta convergence" is conditional on an array of explanatory variables that hold constant countries' long-run characteristics. The introduction of country fixed effects generates a much...

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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

Acemoglu, Daron; Hassan, Tarek A.; Tahoun, Ahmed - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960442