relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1233/
title: Warfare, Fiscal Capacity, and Performance
creator: Dincecco, Mark
creator: Prado, Mauricio
subject: HA Statistics
subject: HC Economic History and Conditions
subject: HJ Public Finance
subject: JF Political institutions (General)
description: We exploit differences in casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to estimate the impact of fiscal capacity on economic performance. In the past, states fought different amounts of external conflicts, of various lengths and magnitudes. To raise the revenues to wage wars, states made fiscal innovations, which persisted and helped to shape current fiscal institutions. Economic historians claim that greater fiscal capacity was the key long-run institutional change brought about by historical conflicts. Using casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to instrument for current fiscal institutions, we estimate substantial impacts of fiscal capacity on GDP per worker. The results are robust to a broad range of specifications, controls, and sub-samples.  
publisher: Springer-Verlag
date: 2012-09
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1233/1/War%2C%20capacity%2C%20performance%20JEG%20final%2012%20mar%202012.pdf
identifier:   Dincecco, Mark and Prado, Mauricio  Warfare, Fiscal Capacity, and Performance.  Journal of Economic Growth, 17 (3).  pp. 171-203.  ISSN 1381-4338      (2012)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10887-012-9079-4
relation: 10.1007/s10887-012-9079-4