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Public Capital and Income Distribution: a Marriage of Hicks & Newman-Read

Getachew, Yoseph - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This paper examines how publicly provided inputs could affect income distribution. By applying the Newman-Read production function- a generalized Cobb-Douglas production function- to Hicks's idea of the determinant of factor share, such usually complex dynamics remain analytically tractable. The...

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Monthly Report No. 6/2014

Gligorov, Vladimir; Holzner, Mario; Poznanska, Joanna; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Western economies and in CESEE (by Mario Holzner; pp. 4-8 ) Evaluating the convergence of the ‘emerging economies’ the case of …

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Government Ideology in Donor and Recipient Countries: Does Political Proximity Matter for the Effectiveness of Aid?

Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...

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The finance-growth nexus revisited: From origins to a modern theoretical landscape

Stolbov, Mikhail - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The paper is a survey of theoretical and empirical approaches applied to analyze the impact of financial system on economic growth. The key issues of the modern theories of the finance-growth nexus are discussed and the theories are classified on the basis of the methodology they rely on. The...

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Equity market liberalization, credit constraints and income inequality

Sun, Puyang; Sen, Somnath; Jin, Shujing - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper provides compelling evidence that equity market liberalization, the most efficient way to smooth financial market frictions such as credit constraints, can alleviate persistent cross-dynastic income inequality through increasing the accumulation of human capital. We examine the impact...

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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States

Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005

creation of additional jobs. The required further productivity convergence with the EU-15 may thus be in conflict with the …

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Malthus' Revenge

Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

In this paper, we take inspiration from Thomas Malthus' hypothesis that food shortage and hunger would remain "nature's last most dreadful resource" and that "the power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape...

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Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Stam, Erik; Stel, Andre van - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range of countries. An important element of this paper is that...

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Economic Convergence and Structural Change: the Role of Transition and EU Accession

Dobrinsky, Rumen; Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Summary This paper analyses the speed and patterns of economic convergence in the new EU Member States of Central and …, the paper provides stylised facts on growth and convergence in Europe, and explores various convergence measures proposed … in the growth literature. It employs several analytical approaches in order to reveal convergence speed and patterns …

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The importance (impact) of knowledge at the macro-micro levels in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

In this paper we provide a new contribution and fill the gap in the Sudanese literature by investigating the importance (impact) of tacit and codified sources of knowledge at the micro and macro levels in Sudan using new primary data from the firm survey (2010) at the micro level and secondary...

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