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Endogenous Institutional Change After Independence
(2005)
A key event in economic history was the independence of nearly ninety former colonies after World War II. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative evidence, we argue that independence often constituted an institutional ...
Resource Conflict in Vulnerable Environments: Three Models Applied to Darfur
(2008-10-23)
A recurring argument in the global debate is that climate deteriora-
tion is likely to make social conflicts over dwindling natural resources
more common in the future. In this paper, we present a modelling
framework ...
Conflict Diamonds
(2003)
’Conflict diamonds’ refers to the fatal role that diamonds are believed
to have played in several African conflicts. The article analyzes the impact
of diamond abundance on economic growth in light of the broader,
previously ...
The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture
(2001)
The article analyzes the economic reasons behind the rise of Neolithic agriculture some 10,000 years ago in consideration of evidence that agri-culture was not associated with increasing standards of living. On the
basis ...
Reference-Dependent Utility in an Industrial Cluster
(2003)
This article tries to explain the exceptional levels of knowledge creation in certain industrial clusters, levels that are seemingly higher than what is implied by the usual models of atomistic agents who do not internalize ...
Unbundling Ex-Colonies: A Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001
(2004)
In this comment on AJR (2001), we argue that a bundling of all former colonies into one ‘colonial’ theory of comparative development is problematic for several reasons. During the mercantilist wave of mainly Latin American ...
Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu
(2006)
The political and economic impact of country size has been a frequently discussed issue in social science. In accordance with the general
hypothesis of Montesquieu, this paper demonstrates that there is a robust negative ...
The Roots of Ethnic Diversity
(2007-12-14)
The level of ethnic diversity is believed to have significant consequences
for economic and political development within countries. In this article,
we provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the determinants ...
Biogeography and Long-Run Economic
(2000)
The transition from a hunter-gather economy to agricultural production, which made possible the endogenous technological progress that ultimately led to the industrial
revolution, is one of the most important events in ...
Geography and Institutions: A Review of Plausible and Implausible Linkages
(2003)
In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various
aspects of physical geography are closely related to the quality of a
country’s economic institutions. For instance, distance from the equator
in latitude ...