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Dani Rodrik
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 387
Citations - 78862
Dani Rodrik is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Globalization & Free trade. The author has an hindex of 120, co-authored 383 publications receiving 74328 citations. Previous affiliations of Dani Rodrik include Princeton University & Columbia University.
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Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions and trade, and conclude that the quality of institutions "trumps" everything else.
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Distributive Politics and Economic Growth
Alberto Alesina,Dani Rodrik +1 more
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the relationship between economics and politics and concluded that inequality is conducive to the adoption of growth-retarding policies, and presented cross-country evidence consistent with it. But their analysis focused on how an economy's initial configuration of resources shapes the political struggle for income and wealth distribution, and how that, in turn, affects long run growth.
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Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence
Francisco Rodríguez,Dani Rodrik +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found little evidence that open trade policies are significantly associated with economic growth, in the sense of lower tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, and showed that the indicators of openness used by researchers are poor measures of trade barriers or are highly correlated with other sources of bad economic performance.
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Why Do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments
TL;DR: The authors showed that there is a robust empirical association between the extent to which an economy is exposed to trade and the size of its government sector, and that government consumption plays a risk-reducing role in economies exposed to a significant amount of external risk.
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Why do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments
TL;DR: There exists a positive correlation between an economy's exposure to international trade and the size of its government as mentioned in this paper, and the correlation holds for most measures of government spending, in low and high income samples, and is robust to the inclusion of a wide range of controls.