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Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth

Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

studying institutions and technological innovation and examining how human capital and institutional constraints affect the …

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Open Source Software and Economic Growth: A Classical Division of Labor Perspective

Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Limam, Yasmina Reem; Thomassen, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The article turns to classical economic insights on the division of labor and to institutional reasoning to identify some costs and benefits of Open Source Software (OSS) and proprietary software production. It suggests that, thanks to its licenses, OSS favors market expansion more than...

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Do Institutions Impact Innovation?

Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

the links between innovation and institutions. Using cross-country data and the instrumental variable method, this study … boost an economy’s rate of innovation. Most of the previous literature on institutional and economic performance finds a … of institutions on innovation spillover to the growth rate of GDP per capita, this paper shows evidence of a growth …

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How Does Democracy fare with Economic Welfare for a Trading Nation?

Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The paper examines how political institutions in comparison to legal, social and economic institutions fare with different measures of inequality in a cross section framework. The empirical analysis suggests that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal outcomes especially...

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Reconciling Acemoglu and Sachs: geography, institutions and technology

Veiseh, Nima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper attempts to reconcile two models for sustainable economic growth in developing countries. I develop an empirical and theoretical case for how the geographic landscape of a country determines the ease with which it can assimilate foreign technologies and establish institutions...

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The Literary Inquisition: The Persecution of Intellectuals and Human Capital Accumulation in China

Koyama, Mark; Xue, Melanie Meng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching-based difference-in-differences estimator, we show that the persecution of scholar-officials led to a decline in the number of examinees at the provincial and prefectural level. To...

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Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Lessons from Small Open Economies

Morgan, Horatio M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper develops a political economy framework to explain the underlying financial mechanisms through which redistributive policies may affect both the relative level of per capita income growth rates, and the relative stability of growth paths across countries. It proposes that...

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Size Matters: The Effect of the Scramble for Africa on Informal Institutions and Development

Dimico, Arcangelo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development in Africa. It matters only when the partitioned groups are relatively small because small groups lack political representation which may promote ethnic mobilization and foster...

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Is Aid Really Dead? Evidences from Sub-Saharan Africa

Ogundipe, Adeyemi; Ogundipe, Oluwatomisin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study examined the relationship between foreign aid and economic development in Sub Saharan Africa. The study seeks to examine the role of institutions in aid effectiveness in SSA countries by adopting a theoretical framework similar to the Endogenous/New Growth model and the System...

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The European origins of economic development

Easterly, William; Levine, Ross - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A large literature suggests that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes. This literature has had a serious gap: no direct measure of colonial European settlement. In this paper, we (1) construct a new database on...

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