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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407750
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Railway Competition: Options for the Russian Federation
Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001
In its first steps toward reform of its huge and hugely important railway system, the Russian Federation has begun corporate restructuring of a kind favored by many students of railway reform throughout the world: some kind of separation of the entity controlling the infrastructure from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412919
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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways
Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001
A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556074
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Industrialization and Infant Mortality
Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2005
On average, infant mortality rates are lower in more industrialized nations, yet health and mortality worsened during early industrialization in some nations. This study examines the effects of growing manufacturing employment on infant mortality across 274 Indonesian districts from 1985 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118693
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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally
Paul_Cheshire; Stefano_Magrini - EconWPA - 2004
. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating migration flows between cities in different countries are highly … systematic and highly significant factor determining rates of urban population growth is climatic variation. Cities with better … – including natural rates of increase in the areas of each country outside the major cities - are allowed for: there is no such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407839
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Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why?
Tybout, James - EconWPA - 1999
general movement toward trade liberalization in LDCs has made this less of an issue today than it was 20 years ago. Each of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118709
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Border Controls, Public Policy, Immigration, and Trade with Mexico
Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Sprinkle, Richard L - EconWPA - 2004
2001 terrorist attacks. Topics covered include cross-border commuting patterns, merchandise trade flows, immigration, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118687
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TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF U.S.-EAST ASIA COMMODITY TRADE, 1962-1992
Singh, Nirvikar; Carolan, Terrie - EconWPA - 2004
We examine the composition of bilateral trade between the United States and each of eight Asian Pacific economies from … significant change occurred in trade composition during this period. For the eight bilateral trade relationships, commodities … representing from fifty to seventy percent of 1992 dollar trade volume have shown statistically significant change in the magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556415
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Lumpy World and Race to the Bottom.
Fabien, Candau - EconWPA - 2005
dispersion - agglomeration configuration when regional and/or international trade are liberalised. Two main results are found …-shaped but strictly decreasing when impediments to trade are removed. This turns out to be a convenient framework to revisit the … links between tax competition, location of firms and trade integration. It is shown in particular that trade liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062585
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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally
Cheshire, Paul; Magrini, Stefano - EconWPA - 2005
. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating migration flows between cities in different countries are highly … systematic and highly significant factor determining rates of urban population growth is climatic variation. Cities with better … – including natural rates of increase in the areas of each country outside the major cities - are allowed for: there is no such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119045