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The Contribution of Human Capital Formation to Post-War Economic Growth in Ireland

Walsh, Brendan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

education to economic development, this paper examines the performance of the Irish economy in the framework of a model of … relatively low. Possible explanations for this poor performance are explored. Neither the structure of education nor low rates of … returns to the increased investment in education undertaken in recent decades. …

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Education, Social Cohesion and Economic Growth

Gradstein, Mark; Justman, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Analysis of the contribution of education to growth through its role in promoting a common culture indicates that when …

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R and D and Growth at the Industry Level

Cameron, Gavin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

Although research and development is widely considered to be an important source of growth, relatively little is known about how its effects differ across industries. This is mainly because much research on the effect of R&D has used either cross-section or time-series data and the remainder has...

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Demand-Driven Financial Development

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The historical record suggests that economic development is associated with the rise of the financial sector. This rise is often triggered by exogenous events such as large budget deficits generated by wars or the availability of large investment projects such as railroads. This paper discusses...

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Economic Growth and the Swedish Model

Henrekson, Magnus; Jonung, Lars; Stymne, Joakim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We examine the growth performance of Sweden in the post-World War II period, focusing on explaining the relative decline of economic growth in Sweden since the early 1970's. The hypothesis that the relative decline is a consequence of productivity catch-up is rejected. A number of potential...

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Convergence Clubs and Diverging Economies

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper focuses on the question of income convergence among countries. While the methodology used to determine convergence differs from the common cross-sectional approach, it corroborates Baumol's finding of a convergence club among the world's wealthiest countries. It also shows that there...

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Trade and Convergence Among Countries

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper examines the relationship between trade and income convergence by focusing on groups of countries comprising major trade partners. The majority of these groups exhibited significant convergence. Furthermore, a comparison of the trade-based groups with different, randomly selected,...

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Slowdowns and Meltdowns: Post-war Growth Evidence from 74 Countries

Ben-David, Dan; Papell, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Many countries, both industrialized and developing, appear to have experienced a slowdown in economic growth. We examine a large sample of countries and find that a majority exhibit a significant structural break in their post-war growth rates. In nearly all of these cases the break was followed...

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The Resource Curse: A Statistical Mirage?

James, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

A surprising feature of resource-rich economies is slow growth. It is often argued that natural-resource production impedes development by creating market or institutional failures. This paper establishes an alternative explanation - a slow-growing resource sector. A declining resource...

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The Great Wars, the Great Crash, and the Unit Root Hypothesis: Some New Evidence About An Old Stylized Fact

Ben-David, Dan; Papell, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

For decades, the prevailing sentiment among economists was that growth rates remain constant over the long run. Kaldor considered this to be one of the six important `stylized facts' that theory should address, and until the emergence of endogenous growth models, this was a fundamental feature...

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