Search for dissertations about: "Acemoglu"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Acemoglu.
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1. Deltas Apart - Factor Endowments, Colonial Extraction and Pathways of Agricultural Development in Vietnam
Abstract : This study provides an explanation of the different pathways of agricultural change and economic development in north and south Vietnam. It shows that pre-colonial factor endowments conditioned the development of the rice economies of the two deltas in Tonkin and Cochinchina. READ MORE
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2. Institutions, policy and quasi-experimental evidence
Abstract : Political economics has been an active research area in the last decades. Lately, the number of empirical studies has caught up with the vast amount of theoretical work. However, the empirical studies that rely on natural experiments or exogenous sources of variation are relatively few. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Macroeconomics: Wage Rigidity and Aggregate Fluctuations
Abstract : Essay I: I use Swedish micro data to analyze how firms adjusted their labor costs in response to the large drop in aggregate demand during the Great Recession. For identification, I exploit that the recession primarily hit export-dependent firms in Sweden. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Conflict, Institutions, and Ethnic Diversity
Abstract : The thesis consists of five self-contained papers. Paper 1: Social Capital vs Institutions in the Growth Process Is social capital a substitute or a complement to formal institutions for achieving economic growth? Research on the impacts of social capital and formal institutions on economic development have so far mainly emerged as two distinct …elds. READ MORE