Latin America in the rearview mirror

Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others?

Robert E. Hall, C. I. Jones · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1999 · 7.9K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Development Economics +15

Technology, Geography, and Trade

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum · Econometrica · 2002 · 4.4K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Geography +17

Government Ownership of Banks

Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer · The Journal of Finance · 2002 · 2.5K citations · Full text

Business, Economics, Finance +10

Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence

Francisco Rodríguez, Dani Rodrik · NBER Macroeconomics Annual · 2000 · 2.4K citations

Public Affairs, Economics, International Economics +16

Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · National Bureau of Economic Research · 2004 · 2K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Economics, Political Science +16