Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Author "Dudley, Léonard"

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  • Bureaucratic Corruption As a Constraint on Voter Choice 

    Dudley, Léonard; Montmarquette, Claude (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1986)
    It Has Often Been Assumed That a Country's Tax Level, Tax Structure Progressivity and After-Tax Income Distribution Are Chosen by Voters Subject Only to Their Budget Constraints. This Paper Argues That At Certain Income Levels Voters' Decisions May Be ...

  • Communication and Economic Growth 

    Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)
    Overs the past millennium, each of the three centuries of most rapid demographic growth in the West Coincided with the diffusion of a new communications technology. This paper examines the hypothesis of Harold Innis (1894-1952) that there is two-way ...

  • Determinants of Government Expenditures: an Application of the Linear Expenditure System 

    Dudley, Léonard; Montmarquette, Claude (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1979)

  • Directed Technical Change and International Trade 

    Dudley, Léonard; MOENIUS, Johannes (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
    Recent changes in comparative advantage in the largest OECD economies differ significantly from the predictions of Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek theory. Japan's rising share of OECD machinery exports and the improvement in the comparative advantage of the USA ...

  • Explaining the Great Divergence: Medium and Message on the Eurasian Land Mass, 1700-1850 

    Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
    Between 1700 and 1850, per-capita income doubled in Europe while falling in the rest of Eurasia. Neither geography nor economic institutions can explain this sudden divergence. Here the consequences of differences in communications technology are ...

  • The growth impact of language standardization : Metcalfe’s Law and the industrial revolution 

    Dudley, Léonard; Rauh, Christopher (2020-01-13)
    During the Industrial Revolution, did population growth stimulate innovation, or did causality run primarily from innovation to growth? Previous research fails to explain why between 1700 and 1850: (i) most innovation originated in three clusters of ...

  • Innovation growth clusters : Lessons from the industrial revolution 

    Dudley, Léonard; Rauh, Christopher (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-08)
    Over three centuries ago, a new technology suddenly increased the amount and frequency of available information. Might such «Big Data» have disrupted the causal relationships linking economic growth and innovation? Previous research has affirmed that ...

  • Macroeconomic Interdependence and the Terms of Trade 

    Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1980)

  • The Rationality of Revolution 

    Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)
    Did the recent transition to liberal democracy in Eastern Europe consitute revolutions? Here, game theory is used to structure an explanation of institutional change proposed by Harold Innis (1950).

  • Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right? 

    Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)
    Evidence of falling wages in Catholic cities and rising wages in Protestant cities between 1500 and 1750, during the spread of literacy in the vernacular, is inconsistent with most theoretical models of economic growth. In The Protestant Ethic, Weber ...

  • The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949-1989 

    Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)
    Why do some organizations decline while other do not? to study this issue , we introduce technological change into a theory of agency proposed by Laffont and Tirole. We show that the optimal organizational form for production depends on the estent of ...

  • Standardized Latin and Medieval Economic Growth 

    Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Léonard (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
    Traditional explanations for Western Europe's demographic growth in the High Middle Ages are unable to explain the rise in per-capita income that accompanied observed population changes. Here, we examine the hypothesis that an innovation in information ...

  • Yesterday’s Games: Contingency Learning and the Growth of Public Spending, 1890-1938 

    Dudley, Léonard; WITT, Ulrich (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
    Neither democracy nor globalization can explain the doubling of the peacetime public share in many Western countries between World Wars I and II. Here we examine two other explanations that are consistent with the timing of the observed changes, namely, ...