The Skeptics Guide to Institutions – Part 1
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. I’m starting a run of several lectures on institutions in my growth and development course. By revealed...
View ArticleThe Skeptics Guide to Institutions – Part 2
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. This is the second of a series of posts on the empirical institutions literature that I am covering in my...
View ArticleThe Skeptics Guide to Institutions – Part 3
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. This is the third in a series of posts regarding the institutions literature. The first two posts dealt...
View ArticleThe Skeptics Guide to Institutions – Part 4
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. The final installment of my series on the empirical institutions literature. Quick summary of the prior...
View ArticleMean-Reversion in Growth Rates and Convergence
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. Brad DeLong posted about the recent paper by Pritchett and Summers (PS) on “Asiaphoria” and mean-reversion...
View ArticleResearch on Persistent Roots of Development
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. A few papers of interest regarding the persistent effect of historical conditions (geographic or not) on...
View ArticleSignificant Changes in GDP Growth
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. A relatively quick post to highlight two other posts that recently came out regarding GDP growth. First,...
View ArticleHas the Long-run Growth Rate Changed?
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. My actual job bothered to intrude on my life over the last week, so I’ve got a bit of material stored up …...
View ArticleAll Institutions, All the Time?
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. Wolfgang Keller and Carol Shiue just released a working paper on “Market Integration as a Mechanism for...
View ArticleThere is More to Life than Manufacturing
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. One of my continuing questions about research in economic growth is why it insists on remaining so focused...
View Article
