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Guns, Germs, and Slaves: an Alternative View of the Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
This paper shows that early colonial interactions between Europeans and indigenous populations, specifically the deaths of the latter, …
Jean-Louis Arcand, David Sylvan, Anastasia Aladysheva, Elena Gadjanova
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Too Much Finance or Statistical Illusion: A Comment
A recent policy brief from the Peterson Institute suggests that the "Too Much Finance" result may be an artifact of spurious …
Enrico Berkes, Ugo Panizza, Jean-Louis Arcand
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Too much finance?
This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial depth no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We use …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes, Ugo Panizza
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Comments on 'Financial Development and Economic Growth: Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns'
Jean-Louis Arcand
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Commentaires sur « Développement financier et croissance économique : les connus connus, les inconnus connus et les inconnus inconnus »
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Jean-Louis Arcand
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Finance and Economic Development in a Model with Credit Rationing
Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes, Ugo Panizza
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Language in Economic Development: Is English Special and is Linguistic Fragmentation Bad?
Jean-Louis Arcand, François Grin
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Too Much Finance?
This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. …
Ugo Panizza, Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes
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Deforestation and the Real Exchange Rate
Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical model of …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney
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Institutions, Mobilization and Rebellion in Post-Colonial Societies
We revisit the simultaneous equations model of rebellion, mobilization, grievances and repression proposed by Gurr and Moore (1997). …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Jean-Pierre Tranchant
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