Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18447

The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered: Hard Steps, The Great Filter, and Doomsday

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18293

Good-for-Nothing Entrepreneurs: Capitalism and Democratic Decline in the West

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17806

The Role of Business Visits in Fostering R&D Investment

Massimiliano Tani, Marco Vivarelli, Mariacristina Piva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17392

Monopsony in Growth Theory

Pietro Garibaldi, Enrico D. Turri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17281

Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship

Gaurav Chiplunkar, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17158

Entrepreneurship Is Dangerously Obsessed with Growth and Incompatible with Current Visions of a Post-growth Society

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16766

Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of New Ideas: Is an Economic Growth Explosion Imminent?

Derick Almeida, Wim Naudé, Tiago Neves Sequeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494

Religion and Growth

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16483

Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 292–328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16408

Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology

Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé, Erik Stam

published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16191

We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16139

Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15924

Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15713

The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15575

Demographic Transitions across Time and Space

Matthew J. Delventhal, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Nezih Guner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15278

Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India

Chandan Jain, Shagun Kashyap, Rahul Lahoti, Soham Sahoo

published as 'The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (3), 1068-1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14237

Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier, Luca Pensieroso

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2023, 28, 79 - 123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13950

Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity

Philippe Askenazy

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 85–93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13625

Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2022, 60 (1), 85–131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13075

The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies

Teevrat Garg, Ajay Shenoy

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103 (4), 1239-1250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12949

Unintended Consequences: Can the Rise of the Educated Class Explain the Revival of Protectionism?

Paolo E. Giordani, Fabio Mariani

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2022, 200, 105385.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12878

Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francesco Amodio, Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12727

Baumol versus Engel: Accounting for 100 years (1885-1985) of Structural Transformation in Japan

Kyoji Fukao, Saumik Paul

published in: Economic History Review, 2021, 74 (1), 164-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12367

Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

published online in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 12 September 2024, 103684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816

Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11554

The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25 (3), 297-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11389

Do Developing Countries Enjoy Faster Poverty Reduction as Their Initial Poverty Incidences Decline over Time? A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Yusi Ouyang, Abebe Shimeles, Erik Thorbecke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10380

Population Growth and Carbon Emissions

Gregory Casey, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10379

Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid

published in: The Economic Journal, 2025, ueaf117, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10090

Inequality and Growth: The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills

Kirill Borissov, Stefano Bosi, Thai Ha-Huy, Leonor Modesto

published as 'Heterogeneous human capital, inequality and growth: The role of patience and skills' in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 (4), 399-419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9997

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Michal Bauer, Christopher J. Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, Tamar Mitts

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802

Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9188

The French Productivity Puzzle

Philippe Askenazy, Christine Erhel

published in: Ph. Askenazy et al. (eds), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8996

Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector

Paul J. J. Welfens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8941

Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Ngo Van Long, Markus Poschke

published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 87, 206-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8940

Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Ngo Van Long, Markus Poschke

published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (3), 1229-1266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8654

From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos, Bin Tan

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8610

Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children

Matthias Doepke

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 59-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8452

Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal

published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8329

Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality

Andrew Mountford, Hillel Rapoport

published in: World Economy, 2016, 39 (4), 543-556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8243

Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo, Berk Özler

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (4), 800-827

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8147

The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D

Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7765

Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World

Catia Batista, Jacques Potin

published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7733

Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi, Jan Svejnar

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7563

The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

David E. Bloom, Elizabeth T. Cafiero, Mark E. McGovern, Klaus Prettner, Anderson Stanciole, Jonathan Weiss, Samuel Bakkila, Larry Rosenberg

published as 'The macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases in China and India: Estimates, projections, and comparisons' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 100-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7543

Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai, Alejandro Lavopa

published as 'Industrialisation and Technological Change in the BRICS: The Role of Foreign and Domestic Investment' in: W. Naudé, A. Szirmai, and N. Haraguch (eds.), Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7507

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7459

Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7391

Disease and Development Revisited

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink

pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1355-1366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7199

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (3), 189-225