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Services growth and convergence: Getting India’s states together

Shingal, ANIRUDH - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …

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Infrastructures and economic performance: a critical comparison across four approaches

Torrisi, Gianpiero - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper reviews studies analysing the relationship between infrastructures and economic performance. Four different approaches are separately considered along an ideal path from theory-based to data-oriented models: the production function approach, the cost function approach, growth-models,...

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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...

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Trade policies, concentration, growth and welfare

González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa, Luis; Pueyo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The aim of this paper is to analyse, through a theoretical model, the effects that the trade integration of two countries may have on industrial location, growth and welfare. The conclusions reached finally depend both on whether the import or the export costs are affected by the trade policies...

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Education Funding and Regional Convergence

de la Croix, David; Monfort, Philippe - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of regional convergence within the framework of an overlapping … education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two …-off between long run growth rate and short run convergence. In such choice, the initial capital stock and the extent of regional …

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Dualism and Cross-Country Growth Regressions

Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...

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Ecological Barriers and Convergence: a Note on Geometry in Spatial Growth Models

FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

conditions that guarantee, in the long run, the convergence of the detrended capital across locations and those inducing spatial …

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Economic Growth

CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...

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Child Allowances, Educational Subsidies and Economic Growth

Chen, Hung-Ju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

educational subsidies. We show that multiple steady states may arise under these two policies, with club convergence occurring …

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Development Policies when Accounting for the Extensive Margin of Fertility

BAUDIN, Thomas; CROIX, David de la; GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015

Beyond natural sterility, there are two main types of childlessness: one driven by poverty and another by the high opportunity cost to child-rearing. We argue that taking childlessness and its causes into account matters for assessing the impact of development policies on fertility. We measure...

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