Andreas Bergh is associate professor in Economics at Lund university and fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm.

His research concerns the welfare state, institutions, development, globalization, trust and social norms.

He has published in journals such as European Economic Review, World Development, European Sociological Review and Public Choice. He is the author of 'Sweden and the revival of the capitalist welfare state" (Edward Elgar, 2014).

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feb042011

Albouy vs Acemoglu, Robinson & Johnson – Slutresultat?

En glädjande nyhet: På David Alboyes hemsida står nu hans kommentar på

Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., and Robinson, J. (2001). The colonial origins of comparative development. American Economic Review, 91, 1369-1401.

som forthcoming i American Economic Review.

Det är tufft, eftersom det innebär att en okänd doktorand (disputerade 2007) som hittade tokigheter i det som då var det kanske hetaste pappret inom litteraturen om institutions and growth, inte kan bollas bort hur som helst.

Abstract är fortfarande ord och inga visor:

In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) argue property-rights institutions powerfully affect national income, using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers to instrument capital expropriation risk. However 36 of the 64 countries in their sample are assigned mortality rates from other countries, typically based on mistaken or conflicting evidence.  Also, incomparable mortality rates from populations of laborers, bishops, and soldiers - often on campaign - are combined in a manner favoring their hypothesis.

I själva pappret finns än mer förödande formuleringar (samma som när jag först uppmärksammade pappret – för två år sedan.):

Six assignments [of settler mortality rates to countries] are based  upon AJR’s misunderstanding of former names of countries in Africa.  Another sixteen assignments are based on a questionable use of bishop mortality data in Latin America from Gutierrez (1986), which are based on 19 deaths.

Där rök ett elegant papper, och en bergsäker ekonomipriskandidat.

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Wow. Den publiceringsnivån vill man ha tre år efter att man disputerat...
På tal om ord och inga visor så är ju Acemoglus et al. svar ganska välartikulerade, de med:

http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/203

och

http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/212

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