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Geography, Non-Homotheticity, and Industrialization: A Quantitative Analysis

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - CESifo - 2012

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or agriculture is driven by comparative advantage and non-homothetic preferences. Countries are integrated through trade but trade is not costless and geographic position matters....

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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development

Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2013

This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...

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Modeling Institutions, Start-Ups and Productivity during Transition

Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2010

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced...

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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?

Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …. Our econometric analysis shows that the resource reallocation argument helps explain French export performance between the …

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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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Sources of the German Productivity Demise – Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment

Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007

) experienced negative TFP growth. This second major difference between the US and German industry performance explains Germany …

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Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries

Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - CESifo - 2006

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the Global Games approach we can solve this coordination problem and eliminate the problem of multiple equilibria. We show how appropriate information provision enhances efficiency....

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Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries

Englmaier, Florian - 2013

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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...

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The Complementary between Technology and Human Capital in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Franck, Raphael - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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