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EFFICIENCY OF INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL STABILITY AND INCOME DYNAMICS
Carmignani, Fabrizio - EconWPA - 2005
Gini coefficient and to increase average income, growth, and income of the poor. However, some non-linearites are detected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412490
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Endogenous Antitrust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Impact of Competition-Enhancing Policies on Productivity
Borrell, Joan-Ramon; Tolosa, Mara - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on productivity by as much as 18%.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561379
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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Benchmarking, Productivity and Investment Needs, paper presented at Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference, Durban, 9/7-9/200...
Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes - EconWPA - 2005
The paper provides three principal results. First, we benchmark South African infrastructure performance in terms of access, pricing, and quality against key comparator groups of countries using the most recent World Bank benchmarking data base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125863
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Economía de la Inversión Extranjera en Colombia
Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556470
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Foreign Capital, Inflation, Sterilization, Crowding-Out and
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper discusses some puzzles in the contemporary macroeconomic scene in India, from the perspective of public finance and economic development. These include a fiscal deficit higher than it was during the 1991 crisis, but without a large current account deficit or rise in inflation or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125512
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Institutions and the resource curse
Mehlum, Halvor; Moene, Karl; Torvik, Ragnar - EconWPA - 2002
Countries rich in natural resources constitute both growth losers and growth winners. We claim that the main reason for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408250
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The Impact of a Unionised Labour Market in a Schumpeterian Growth Model
Lingens, Jörg - EconWPA - 2002
This paper extends the seminal creative destruction growth model of Aghion/Howitt (1992) to investigate the … relationship between unemployment and growth. We distinguish low-skilled and high-skilled labour and assume that a union bargains … over the low-skilled labour wage. This causes unemployment, but the growth e ect is ambiguous. On the one hand the higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408356
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Institutions and the resource curse
Mehlum, Halvor; Moene, Karl; Torvik, Ragnar - EconWPA - 2002
Countries rich in natural resources constitute both growth losers and growth winners. We claim that the main reason for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550983
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Growth and Employment Effects of Unions in a Simple Endogenous Growth Model
Lingens, Jörg - EconWPA - 2002
In this paper we analyse the effects of simultaneous union wage bargaining in a simple two sector growth model. We show … employment effects we analyse how unionisation changes the rate of growth. It is shown that both research sector unionisation and … intermediate sector unionisation lower the rate of growth, although the effect of research sector unionisation is more fierce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556806
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004
Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556098