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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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Economic Reforms, Foreign Direct Investment and its Economic Effects in India

Chakraborty, Chandana; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

to Granger causality tests within a panel cointegration framework. It turns out that the growth effects of FDI vary …

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Modeling Maximum Entropy and Mean-Field Interaction in Macroeconomics

Di Guilmi, Corrado; Gallegati, Mauro; Landini, Simone - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

agents in conditions of uncertainty. Heterogeneity entails asymmetric reactions to shocks and, through interaction mechanisms …

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(S,s) pricing: Does the heterogeneity wipe out the asymmetry on micro level?

Babutsidze, Zakaria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

over on macro level and what is the role of agent heterogeneity in the process. We look at two kinds of asymmetries: (i … conclude that the first type of asymmetry can be attributed to the differences in adjustment bands and that heterogeneity … softens this effect. The second type of asymmetry is the result of pricing behavior, thus of agent heterogeneity itself. …

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Hiring chains and the dynamic behavior of job and worker flows

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

the unemployment rate. I show that a simple frictionless business cycle model with heterogeneity and a simple form of on …

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Current Account Imbalances and Income Inequality: Theory and Evidence

Al-Hussami, Fares; Remesal, Álvaro Martín - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In this paper we analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of an increase in income inequality on the current account balance. We develop a model with consumption externalities and heterogeneous agents which explains how an increase in income inequality can affect negatively or positively...

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Exporting and the Environment: A New Look with Micro-Data

Girma, Sourafel; Hanley, Aoife; Tintelnot, Felix - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Previous aggregate studies ignore additional environmental improvements caused by intra industry reallocations to high productivity/ low pollution firms. They also fail to consider potential differences in abatement efforts by exporting status. Our estimation based on UK firm level data from...

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A New Global Index of Infrastructure: Construction, Rankings and Applications

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...

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Governmental activity, integration, and agglomeration

Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

whether agglomeration arises and if so to which extent economic activity is concentrated: As a consequence of enhanced … integration, agglomeration is less likely to arise and concentration will be lower. Relative congestion reinforces agglomeration …

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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops

Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

, the design of the rules and regulations can provide strong incentives for regional agglomeration of GM and non-GM farmers. …

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