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Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - CESifo - 2008
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181360
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Racial Differences in Body-Mass Indices for Men Imprisoned in 19th Century US Prisons: A Multinomial Approach
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2010
Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583681
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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690383
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Which currency to set price? A model of multiple countries and risk averse firm
Wang, Jian - EconWPA - 2004
A crucial question centering many recent debates in the international macroeconomics is under which currency the price is sticky. This paper provides a microfoundation to study the firm¡¦s choice of price setting currency in the sticky price model. I first prove that the risk preference is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119435
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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853849
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Economic Growth in Africa: Comparing Recent Improvements with the "lost 1980s and early 1990s" and Estimating New Growth Trends
Leibfritz, Willi; Flaig, Gebhard - CESifo - 2013
In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa’s average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641423
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Investing in Hope: AIDS, Life Expectancy, and Human Capital Accumulation
Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley - EconWPA - 2005
disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118675
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Skriptum: Europäisches und internationales Sozialrecht. Europäische und internationale Sozialpoltik
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556821
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Globalization and Domestic Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - EconWPA - 2005
We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408071
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - CESifo - 2010
with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671733