Domestic institutions can have profound effects on international trade. This chapter reviews
the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of this insight. Particular attention is paid to …

This article provides a survey of a growing body of empirical evidence that points toward the
important long-term effects that historic events can have on economic development. The …

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Gwyneth H. McClendon Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political …

We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American
South in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites …

Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore
this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave …

It is a common assumption that regions within the same country converge to approximately
the same steady-state income levels. The so-called absolute convergence hypothesis …

Resource and land frontiers have always been a significant focus of geography but have
become overlooked in economics and economic history. Yet a critical driving force behind …

An analysis using reserves as a measure of resource abundance suggests that natural
resource abundance has not been a significant structural determinant of economic growth in …

This paper provides an overview of the long-term impacts of the Columbian Exchange—that
is, the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, technologies, populations, and cultures …

This paper develops a simple model to analyse how a lack of political competition may lead
to policies that hinder economic growth. We test the predictions of the model on panel data …