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Institutions, Wages and Inequality : The Case of Europe and its Periphery (1500-1899)
Chor, Davin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper explores the long-run relationship between institutions and wage outcomes in Europe and its periphery. I find that cities that exercised stronger institutional protection of private property experienced : (i) higher levels of both skilled and unskilled real wages, as well as (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363722
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Effective Development Aid : Selectivity, Proliferation and Fragmentation, and the Growth Impact of Development Assistance
Kihara, Takashi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
of GDP per capita of recipient countries than that of other donors. The growth acceleration effects of short-impact aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651627
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Does Governance Matter? Yes, No or Maybe Some Evidence from Developing Asia
Quibria, M. G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper seeks to explore the relationship between economic growth and governance performance in Asian developing economies. This exploration yields some interesting conclusions. First, notwithstanding its tremendous economic achievements, the state of governance in Asia is not stellar by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363600
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors and the political con.icts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main production factor in economy evolves from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365197
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors, and political conicts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main capital form in economy evolves from land to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365249
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Has Liberalization Strengthened the Link between Services and Manufacturing?
Pasadilla, Gloria O.; Liao, Christine Marie M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Globalization and pressure from increased competition have led to splintering of in-house services from formerly integrated manufacturing firms in developed economies and, at the same time, to an increase in outsourcing of these same services. These two trends have caused a stronger linkage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365336
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Future Job Prospects in Singapore
Teck, Hoon Hian - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
historical experience, it would be necessary to achieve an annual real GDP growth rate of 7.1 percent in order to keep the … unemployment rate unchanged. Moreover, a one-percentage point shortfall of the real GDP growth rate below 7.1 percent in any given … economy is able to generate at most 5 percent real GDP annual growth rate (the high end of the range of official medium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363351
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FDI Inflows, Exports and Economic Growth in First and Second Generation ANIEs : Panel Data Causality Analyses
Won, Yongkul; Hsiao, Frank S.T.; Yang, Doo Yong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Using timeseries and panel data from 1981 to 2005, this paper examines the Granger causality relations between GDP … addition to China. We first show the difference between the first and second generation ANIEs in terms of real GDP per capita … causality between real exports and GDP for the four second generation ANIEs. However, when all seven ANIEs are grouped for panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363413
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Sustainable External Debt Levels : Estimates for Selected Asian Countries
Mariano, Roberto; Villanueva, Delano - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
High ratios of external debt to GDP in selected Asian countries have contributed to the initiation, propagation, and … GDP, as functions of real world interest rates, risk spreads and their responsiveness to external debt burdens and market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364005
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Analysing the Terms of Trade Effect for Pakistan
Fatima, Nishat - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The study investigates the impact of changes in terms of trade in Pakistan on its income and consumption potentials, by employing two measures of terms of trade, namely, barter terms of trade and income terms of trade. The study examines Pakistans terms of trade behaviour using time series data...
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