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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...
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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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Indirect and Compounded Effects of External Crises on Growth in Emerging Markets
Melecky, Martin - EconWPA - 2005
An attempt to quantify possible negative effects of external crises in emerging market economies is made in this paper. The direct and indirect effects of the external crises, here sudden stops in capital flows and currency crises, are estimated and compounded into composite overall effects. In...
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The Impact of Current Account Reversals on Growth in Central and Eastern Europe
Melecky, Martin - EconWPA - 2005
According to economic theory, the capital inflows reversal – so-called sudden stop – has a significant negative effect on economic growth. This paper investigates the direct impact of current account reversals on growth in Central and Eastern European countries. Two steps to conduct the...
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The Empirics of the Solow Growth Model: Long-Term Evidence
Barossi-Filho, Milton; Silva, Ricardo Gonçalves; … - EconWPA - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to reassess the standard Solow growth model,using a dynamic panel data approach. A new … methodology is chosen to deal with this problem. First, unit root tests for individual country time series were run. Second, panel … data unit root and cointegration tests were performed. Finally, the panel cointegration dynamics is estimated by DOLS …
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Do efficient banking sectors accelerate economic growth in transition countries?
Koivu, Tuuli - EconWPA - 2002
earlier empirical literature. In this paper, we analyse the finance-growth nexus using a fixed-effects panel model and … unbalanced panel data from 25 transition countries during the period 1993-2000. We measure the qualitative development in the …
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Export variety and economic growth in East European transition economies
Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - EconWPA - 2003
Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we find support for the hypothesis that a greater …
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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES
SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004
Plenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable...
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REDEFINED PRODUCTIVITY & SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORIENTED MANAGEMENT DECISIONS.
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2004
In the Domain of Development Economics, Productivity is represented by Output to Input Ratio & Management Decisions related to the Inputs and Outputs ensures to keep this ratio in a favourable condition. When this is integrated with a Broad-Scope of Socio-Economic Development (SED). Qualitative...
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Social capital, labour precariousness and the economic performance. An empirical assessment of the strength of weak ties in Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of urban environments and on the economic performance in Italy. Overall, the empirical evidence shows that weak ties connecting members of voluntary...
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