The East German experience with EU membership (after unification in 1990) probably comes close to what might be called a controlled experiment for assessing the growth effects of EU membership. East...
The Solow model in the empirics of growth and trade (2007)
Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady-state output per person are due to international differences in technology for a...
The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: Direct Income Effects of Malaria Prevalence (2006)
Carstensen, Kai, Gundlach, Erich
Some recent empirical studies deny any direct effect of geography on development and conclude that institutions dominate all other potential determinants of development. An alternative view...
The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: Direct Income Effects of Malaria Prevalence (2006)
Carstensen, Kai, Gundlach, Erich
Some recent empirical studies deny any direct effect of geography on development and conclude that institutions dominate all other potential determinants of development. An alternative view...
Chromatographische untersuchungen mit Markierten Thrombozyten-Aggregationshemmern / (1973)
Thesis (doctoral)--Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am Main, 1973.
Notes on Factor Price Equality and Biased Technical Change in a Two-Cone Trade Model
We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased...
The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: Direct Income Effects of Malaria Prevalence
Kai Carstensen, Erich Gundlach
Some recent empirical studies deny any direct effect of geography on development and conclude that institutions dominate all other potential determinants of development. An alternative view...
Two Views on Institutions and Development: The Grand Transition vs. the Primacy of Institutions
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the...
I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and...
Erich Gundlach, Susanne Hartmann
We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our...
Two Views on Institutional Development: The Grand Transition vs the Primacy of Institutions
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the...
Erich Gundlach, Susanne Hartmann
This paper considers the argument about whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the leading...
Notes on Factor Price Equality and Biased Technical Change in a Two-Cone Trade Model
We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased...
Factor Price Equality and Biased Technical Change in a Two-Cone Trade Model
We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased...
The Augmented Solow Model with Mincerian Schooling and Externalities
Kai Carstensen, Erich Gundlach, Susanne Hartmann
We combine the augmented Solow model with the Mincer equation to derive a specification that identifies an education externality within a production function framework. The previous empirical...
The Decline of Schooling Productivity in OECD Countries.
Gundlach, Erich, Wossmann, Ludger, Gmelin, Jens
Based on Baumol's cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of...
Notes on Factor Price Equality and Biased Technological Change in a Two-Cone Trade Model
We reconsider the effects of long run growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technological change. Allowing for capital biased...
The Solow Model in the Empirics of Cross-Country Growth
Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow 1956) would predict that international differences in steady state output per person are due to international differences in technology...
Growth Effects of EU Membership: The Case of East Germany
convergence, EU membership, human capital, institutional change,
The Fading Productivity of Schooling in East Asia
Erich Gundlach, Ludger Wößmann
We compare changes in schooling output and in schooling input of six East Asian countries to derive a measure of productivity change. Our results question the impression that all is well with...
The Decline of Schooling Productivity in OECD Countries
Erich Gundlach, Ludger Wössmann, Jens Gmelin
Based on Baumol's cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of...
Climatic Conditions, Cultural Diversity, and Labor Productivity
Erich Gundlach, Ximena Matus-Velasco
Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator. The question we address is whether climatic conditions as measured...
The Transition of Corruption: From Poverty to Honesty
Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography as instruments for modern income levels to identify an exogenous long-run income...
A Farewell to Critical Junctures: Sorting Out Long-run Causality of Income and Democracy
We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The Democratic Transition claims that rising incomes cause a transi¬tion to democracy,...
Two Views on Institutions and Development: The Grand Transition vs the Primacy of Institutions
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the...
The Solow Model in the Empirics of Growth and Trade
Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady state output per person are due to international differences in technology for a...
Arbeitssparender technischer Fortschritt und Löhne
Einfache Lehrbuchmodelle liefern widersprüchliche Aussagen zu den Wirkungen eines arbeitssparenden technischen Fortschritts auf die Löhne. Ein Modell der offenen Volkswirtschaft mit zwei...
Demand Bias as an Explanation for Structural Change.
An income elastic demand for services is usually regarded as one of the major explanations for the observed pattern of structural change in the world economy. Recent empirical findings cast some...
Solow model, growth accounting, identification,
Richard Pomfret, Werner Sesselmeier, Erich Gundlach, Klaus-Dieter Schmidt, Jens Lorz, Rolf Langhammer, ...
Jörg-Volker Schrader, Richard Pomfret, Peter Nunnenkamp, Jürgen Stehn, Erich Gundlach, Rolf Langhammer, ...
Two Views on Institutions and Development: The Grand Transition vs the Primacy of Institutions
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as tran¬sitions occurring at roughly the...
A farewell to critical junctures: Sorting out long-run causality of income and democracy
We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The Democratic Transition claims that rising incomes cause a transi¬ tion to democracy,...
Interpreting Productivity Growth in the New Economy: Some Agnostic Notes
The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past...
Income and Democracy: A Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008)
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) demonstrate that estimation of the standard adjustment model with country-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as...
The Democratic Transition. A study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index
The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most...
Income and Democracy. A Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008)
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) demonstrate that estimation of the standard adjustment model with country-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as...
The Democratic Transition. A study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index
The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most...
Technological Change, Trade, and Endogenous Factor Endowments
Erich Gundlach, Albert De Vaal
Factor endowments are usually taken as given in trade theoretical analyses of technological change. We use the Deardorff (1974) diagram to show how the steady state capital labor ratio endogenously...
Education Is Good for the Poor: A Note on Dollar and Kraay (2001)
Gundlach, Erich, De Pablo, Jose Navarro, Weisert, Natascha
Poverty, Income distribution, Education, growth
The agricultural and the democratic transitions - Causality and the Roundup model
Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the...
The agricultural and the democratic transitions. Causality and the Roundup model
Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the...
The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty
Gundlach, Erich, Paldam, Martin
Prehistoric measures of biogeography are used as instruments for modern income levels. We find that our instrumented incomes explain the cross-country pattern of corruption just as well as actual...
A farewell to critical junctures: Sorting out long-run causality of income and democracy
Gundlach, Erich, Paldam, Martin
We consider the empirical relevance of two opposing hypotheses on the causality between income and democracy: The Democratic Transition hypothesis claims that rising incomes cause a transition to...
The Augmented Solow Model with Mincerian Schooling and Externalities
Kai Carstensen, Erich Gundlach, Susanne Hartmann
We combine the augmented Solow model with the Mincer equation to derive a specification that identifies an education externality within a production function framework. The previous empirical...