The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

By Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage (2013, positive): “Acemoglu et al. (2005b) empirically examine this assertion, focusing in particular on the institutional impacts of the trade.”
Innovation across Europe: how important are institutional differences? (2011, neutral): “Other historical variables that have been proposed as instruments for institutional quality today relate political institutions and human capital (Rodrik et al. 2002; Acemoglu et al., 2002).”
International Trade and Institutional Change (2013, neutral): “Acemoglu et al. (2005b) argue that in some West European countries, Atlantic trade during the period 1500-1850 engendered good institutions by creating a merchant class, that became a powerful lobby for institutional improvement.”
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development (2010, positive): “Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2005b) summarized this framework with the following schematic representation:”
DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE WHILE SPREADING GOD'S MESSAGE: PROTESTANTISM AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN CHINA, 1840–1920 (2015, positive): “As a substitute, and following Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002, 2005), we use the degree of urbanization to proxy for economic prosperity, given its positive and significant correlation with per capita income.”
The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe (2013, neutral): “These have been widely used as an indicator of economic development (e.g. Acemoglu et al., 2005).”
Trade and Empire (2008, neutral): “Some scholars have argued that trade can transform political institutions and foster the development of property rights, which in turn can lead to greater investment and growth as it did in the North Atlantic economies between 1500–1850 ( Acemoglu et al., 2005 ).”
Population, population density and technological change (2004, neutral): “ Acemoglu et al. (2005) used urbanization rates (which are highly correlated with population density) as a proxy for GDP per capita and then investigated to what extent the growth of urbanization between 1,300 and 1,850 was helped by the access to Atlantic Trade and a favourable institutional envir”