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The determinants of the cross-market transmission mechanism for terrorist shocks are explored, focusing on two major terrorist events and 68 national stock markets. We generate daily abnormal returns from a three-factor world asset pricing model. Abnormal returns are then regressed on proxies of...
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In this paper we examine the Marshall-Lerner (ML) condition for the Kenyan economy. In particular, we use quarterly data on the log of real exchange rates, export-import ratio and relative (US) income for the time period 1996q1 - 2011q4, and employ techniques based on the concept of long memory...
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FDI depends on the country specific absorptive capacity. We first interact FDI individually with different growth … determinants and we find that the contribution of FDI to economic growth is positive and significant depending on the level of … substitute a set of other growth determinants. Then we test the robustness of the linear interaction terms relative to each other …
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This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a pure change in export … volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying panel cointegration techniques to a production function with … growth effect of exports and the capacity of a country to absorb new knowledge. …
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This study examines the export-led growth hypothesis using annual time series data from Chile in a production function … of manufactured and mining exports on productivity growth. In order to investigate if and how manufactured and mining … exports affect economic growth via increases in productivity, the study uses Johansen cointegration technique. The estimation …
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In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP …
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Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial … states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a … production function approach, this paper examines to which extent regional GDP growth in China is export driven. In a panel of 28 …
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We analyse the relationship between the debt to GDP ratio and real per capita GDP growth for the euro area members by … framework. If the interest rate exceeds nominal output growth, primary budget surpluses are required to achieve a sustainable …
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What determines the direction of spread of currency crises? We examine data on waves of currency crises in 1992, 1994, 1997, and 1998 to evaluate several hypotheses on the determinants of contagion. We simultaneously consider trade competition, financial links, and institutional similarity to...
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also at a lower growth rate than without the China effect. Moreover, we argue that the lower real interest rates resulting …
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