Corresponding author: Guy Michaels, Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. E-mail: g.michaels@lse.ac.uk.
The Long Term Consequences of Resource-Based Specialisation†
Article first published online: 26 NOV 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02402.x
© 2010 The Author(s). The Economic Journal © 2010 Royal Economic Society
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Michaels, G. (2011), The Long Term Consequences of Resource-Based Specialisation. The Economic Journal, 121: 31–57. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02402.x
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I thank Daron Acemoglu, Joshua Angrist, Oriana Bandiera, Abhijit Banerjee, Emek Basker, Tim Besley, Robin Burgess, Esther Duflo, Todd Gormley, Juan Carlos Hallak, Alan Manning, Imran Rasul, Steve Redding, Ariell Reshef, Carmit Segal and John Van Reenen for helpful suggestions and discussions. I also thank seminar participants at Bocconi, Bristol, LSE, Northwestern, Pompeu Fabra, QMUL, Stanford, Surrey and UCLA, and conference participants at CEPR-EUDN (Paris), CEPR Conference on Education (Bergen) and the NBER Summer Institute Trade and Investment Workshop. I acknowledge generous support from the George and Obie Shultz Research Fund.
Publication History
- Issue published online: 15 FEB 2011
- Article first published online: 26 NOV 2010
- Submitted: 18 February 2009 Accepted: 19 July 2010
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