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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty: A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N.; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - CESifo - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty traps created by information problems and incorrect...
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Catastrophic Medical Expenditure Risk
Flores, Gabriela; O'Donnell, Owen - CESifo - 2013
Medical expenditure risk can pose a major threat to living standards. We derive decomposable measures of catastrophic medical expenditure risk from reference-dependent utility with loss aversion. We propose a quantile regression based method of estimating risk exposure from cross-section data...
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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswa Nath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - CESifo - 2013
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The CEPA will eliminate tariff on goods that account for 94% of their two way trade over ten years and will boost bilateral trade and investment. Indian exports which were subject...
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Understanding the Latest Wave and Future Shape of Regional Trade and Cooperation Agreements in Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2006
Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high … growth rates, Asia is still facing considerable socio-economic challenges. If Asia is to reemerge as a major power in the … region’s economies more integrated regionally and internationally. Following the recent global trend, Asia witnessed a wave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406449
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Sources of Real Exchange Rate Volatility and International Financial Integration: A Dynamic GMM Panel Approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - CESifo - 2011
grouped into three regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). Our findings suggest that different types of shocks (external, real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371352
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International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - CESifo - 2009
America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out “second-generation” tests for non-stationary panels …
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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions
Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2012
This paper shows that Tabellini’s recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic development is unjustified. Tabellini’s claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to identify the supposed causal effect. One of...
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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2013
We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...
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