O1 - Economic Development

• Institutional Quality, Trade, and the Changing Distribution of World Income

  Staff Working Paper 2006-19 Brigitte Desroches, Michael Francis

  Conventional wisdom holds that institutional changes and trade liberalization are two main sources of growth in per capita income around the world.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Development economics, International topics JEL Code(s): F, F1, F11, F15, O, O1, O11, P, P4, P48

• Working Time over the 20th Century

  Staff Working Paper 2006-18 Alexander Ueberfeldt

  From 1870 to 2000, the workweek length of employed persons decreased by 41 per cent in industrialized countries.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Economic models, Labour markets, Productivity JEL Code(s): E, E1, E13, E2, E24, O, O1, O11

• The Institutional and Political Determinants of Fiscal Adjustment

  Staff Working Paper 2006-1 Robert Lavigne

  The author empirically assesses the effects of institutional and political factors on the need and willingness of governments to make large fiscal adjustments.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Development economics, Econometric and statistical methods, Fiscal policy, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E6, E62, O, O1, O17, O19