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Hobbes to Rousseau : Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2005

We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be...

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Constitutions and economic development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....

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Disease environment and civil conflicts

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Valmori, Simona - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the opportunity costs of violent activities, both directly and indirectly. The analysis exploits new...

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Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care

Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political...

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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....

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Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604106

Health and economic development: Evidence from the introduction of public health care

Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

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Income, democracy, and critical junctures

Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012

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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

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Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of …

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