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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w13545 |
来源ID | Working Paper 13545 |
Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil | |
Joana Naritomi; Rodrigo R. Soares; Juliano J. Assunção | |
发表日期 | 2007-10-26 |
出版年 | 2007 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper analyzes the roots of variation in de facto institutions, within a constant de jure institutional setting. We explore the role of rent-seeking episodes in colonial Brazil as determinants of the quality of current local institutions, and argue that this variation reveals a de facto dimension of institutional quality. We show that municipalities with origins tracing back to the sugar-cane colonial cycle -- characterized by a polarized and oligarchic socioeconomic structure -- display today more inequality in the distribution of land. Municipalities with origins tracing back to the gold colonial cycle -- characterized by an over-bureaucratic and heavily intervening presence of the Portuguese state -- display today worse governance practices and less access to justice. The colonial rent-seeking episodes are also correlated with lower provision of public goods and lower income per capita today, and the latter correlation seems to work partly through worse institutional quality at the local level. |
主题 | History ; Financial History ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity ; Other ; Economic Systems |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13545 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571221 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joana Naritomi,Rodrigo R. Soares,Juliano J. Assunção. Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil. 2007. |
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