Institutions, development, and economic growth
By: Theo S. Eicher and Cecilia García-Peñalosa, editors.
Contributors: Eicher, Theo S.; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia.
Series: CESifo seminar series
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780262050814
Subjects: Economic development; Economic policy; Social institutions
Description: "The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed transition experiments have highlighted the fact that functioning institutions are fundamental to the goal of achieving economic growth. The growth literature has seen an abundance of empirical studies on the influence of institutions and the mechanisms by which institutions affect development. This CESifo volumes provides a systematic overview of the current scholarship on the impact of institutions on growth. The contributors, all economists, consider institutions and growth."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On institutions and growth -- Philippe Aghion; title: Financial institutional reform, growth, and equality -- Costas Azariadis, David de la Croix; title: How do institutions lead some countries to produce so much more output per worker than others? -- Theo S. Eicher, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Utku Teksoz; title: Regulation and economic performance : product market reforms and productivity in the OECD -- Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta; title: Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth: evidence from great inventors in the United States, 1790-1930 -- B. Zorina Khan, Kenneth L. Sokoloff; title: On the efficacy of reforms : policy tinkering, institutional change, and entrepreneurship -- Murat Iyigun, Dani Rodrik; title: The role of higher education institutions : recruitment of elites and economic growth -- Elise S. Brezis, François Crouzet; title: Growth and endogenous political institutions -- Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Uwe Sunde; title: The road from agriculture-- Thorvaldur Gylfason, Gylfi Zoega.