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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...

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THE TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION: AGAINST GLOBALIZATION AS WE KNOW IT

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only … one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting a malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are … adduced by the supporters of the “globalization as it is” (the Halcyon days of the 1870-1913, and the record of the last two …

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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and …

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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

, globalization; general welfare, social security and public pensions, macroeconomics – Asia including Middle East; macroeconomic …

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A Trend-Cycle(-Season) Filter: Prgoramme Code for Eviews, Excel, and MatLab

Mohr, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

This zip archive contains implementations of the trend-cycle-season filter in Eviews, Excel, and MatLab. The trend-cycle-season filter is another univariate method to decompose a time series into a trend, a cyclical and a seasonal component: the Trend-Cycle filter (TC filter) and its extension,...

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ECONOMICAL VERSUS POLITICAL CYCLES IN AN IBERIAN MANUFACTURING SECTOR

manso, jose ramos pires - EconWPA - 2004

The paper discusses several questions related to the economic cycles, from the scientific methodological approach to isolate the economic cycles, to an empirical application using data of the Portuguese industrial sector, passing by the identification of the real economic cycles that modulated...

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A Trend-Cycle(-Season) Filter

Mohr, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

This paper proposes a new univariate method to decompose a time series into a trend, a cyclical and a seasonal component: the Trend-Cycle filter (TC filter) and its extension, the Trend-Cycle-Season filter (TCS filter). They can be regarded as extensions of the Hodrick-Prescott filter (HP...

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Growth Cycles in Centrally Planned Economies: An Empirical Test

Kyn, Oldrich; Slama, Jiri; Schrettl, Wolfram - EconWPA - 2005

For some time Marxist economists believed that central planning as applied in the Soviet-type economies could prevent cyclical fluctuation. This view, however changed, when in 1960’s it became quite obvious, that some type of cycle is generated in centrally planned economies as well. Because...

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Development Power and Derivative Process-A Model and Theory for Macroeconomy Analysis

Dai, Feng - EconWPA - 2004

Stating from the basic characteristics of economic development process and based on the partial distribution [F.Dai, 2001], this paper advance the concept of development power, give its basic models, and try to establish a theory of describing and analyzing the macroeconomy ©¤ the development...

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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...

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