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Imports and TFP at the Firm Level: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
Augier, Patricia; Cadot, Olivier; Dovis, Marion - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP using...
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Will HIPC Matter? The Debt Game and Donor Behaviour in Africa
Birdsall, Nancy; Claessens, Stijn; Diwan, Ishac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In this Paper we focus on the question: Will the HIPC debt reduction program help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the ‘debt game’ in Africa? We concentrate on the donor and official creditor side, by exploring how the growing debt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662135
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Models of Economic Integration and Localized Growth
Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
Economic integration and free factor mobility may be expected to enhance the growth performance of a united Europe. Simple models of integration among independent, endogenously-growing economic entities suggest that factor mobility may deepen rather than reduce regional differences in economic...
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The CEEC10's Real Convergence Prospects
Hlouskova, Jaroslava; Wagner, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The Central and Eastern European countries' prospects of becoming EU members depend heavily on, among other things, their per capita GDP levels. It is shown that the neoclassical growth model does not yet adequately describe the growth process in these countries. This makes a direct growth...
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Geopolitics, Aid and Growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries’ political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy’s effort, and change the power structure in...
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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …
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Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to addresses this question, which exploit the within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends - in a subtle way - on the details of democratic...
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Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What are the Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client's decision. We test this framework using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
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The Link Between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development
Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol Hua - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
transportation improvements converged to create city growth. We assess the impact of institutions on growth by allowing two ways for … institutions to affect growth. Institutions can directly affect growth, or it can impact on trade, which in turn affects growth …. Once we separately quantify the link from institutions to trade, and trade to growth, the independent effect of …
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
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