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Assessing the Advantages of EMU-Enlargement for the EU and the Accession Countries: A Comparative Indicator Approach

Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from … accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators are developed which measure convergence and … benefits from monetary integration. The more serious problem is a lack of convergence which could imply serious risks during …

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Do Multinational Enterprises Contribute to Convergence or Divergence? A Disaggregated Analysis of US FDI

Mayer-Foulkes, David; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of …

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Superstatistics of Labour Productivity in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Sectors

Ikeda, Yuichi; Fujiwara, Yoshi; Aoyama, Hideaki; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied both theoretically and empirically. Superstatistics is presented as a natural theoretical framework for productivity. The demand index ê is proposed within this framework as a new business index. Japanese productivity data covering...

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Die andere Seite Chinas: Strukturprobleme, Reformdefizite und verzögerte Aufholprozesse im chinesischen Binnenland

Raiser, Martin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

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Gibt es auf lange Sicht eine internationale Konvergenz der Pro-Kopf-Einkommen?

Paqué, Karl-Heinz - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

Substantive - that have emerged in the empirical literature on international per-capita income and productivity convergence. On … basis of various distinctivc lines of reasoning, it is argued that the evidence infavour ofthe convergence hypothesis that …

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Contribution of health to economic development: a survey and overview

Husain, Muhammad Jami - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only...

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Effects of intellectual property rights protection and integration on economic growth and welfare

Lai, Chung-hui; Wang, Vey - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the distribution of rent are central issues in R&D-based growth models with the return to innovation serving as the engine of growth. In this paper the authors consider the strength of the intellectual property rights and franchise...

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The Growth Performance of Developing Countries in the Last Thirty Years. Who gained? Who Lost?

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

This paper answers the question which developing countries have gained and which have lost in the international division of labor during the last thirty years. The indicators used are GDP per capita in constant purchasing power parity and relative distance to the United States. Nearly all...

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Notes on Factor Price Equality and Biased Technical Change in a Two-Cone Trade Model

Becker, Daniel; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased technical change with a sector bias and for endogenous commodity prices, we find that economic...

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The Solow Model in the Empirics of Growth and Trade

Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady state output per person are due to international differences in technology for a constant capital output ratio. However, most of the cross-country growth literature that refers...

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