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This paper provides a critical analysis of the possible methods, data sources and the existing results of the field of 'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The report evaluates content, methods, and data sources of the...
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1980 to 2004, calculated and published by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, are used in the empirical analysis …
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In this study, we suggest an explanation for the alarmingly low growth rates of real housing prices in Canada and … determined by real disposable per capita income, real long-term interest rate, population growth, and urbanization. The … these two countries. Canada and Germany are characterized by relatively low average growth rates of real disposable income …
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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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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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This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. The result indicate that within...
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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
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This paper focuses on two areas of security concern for the European Union: terrorism and international crime. I present a model of game-theoretic interaction between a European state and a domestic dissident group, who, on occasion, may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to...
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