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Urban Specialization in the Internet Age ; Empirical Findings for Germany

Bade, Franz-Josef; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Soltwedel, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

production locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will continue to be concentrated in core cities of … specialization patterns of nine different types of German districts (ranging from core cities of agglomerations to low density rural … “blue collar” workers in core cities which even gains momentum in particular in the second half of the 1990s. …

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Markov or Not Markov, This Should Be a Question

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence, imposes some very restrictive assumptions upon the data generating process, these assumptions have generally been taken for granted so far. The present paper proposes, resp. recalls...

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Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Reform India: Likely to Work Wonders for Regional Development?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Stracke, Rudi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

We make use of a new and detailed database on FDI approvals since the early 1990s to address two major issues related to FDI and regional development in India in the post-reform period. First, we analyze the location choices of foreign investors. The evidence indicates that the concentration of...

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Cross-country growth empirics and model uncertainty: An overview

Ulaşan, Bülent - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins with describing the basic framework used in recent empirical cross-country growth research. Even though this literature was mainly inspired by endogenous growth theories, the...

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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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The endogeneity of the natural rate of growth: An alternative approach

Senay, Acikgöz; Mert, Merter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This study estimates and tests the endogeneity of the natural rate of growth using the balance-of-payments consistent rate of growth (BPCRG) instead of the actual rate of growth. Our approach is also theoretically compatible with the one proposed by Thirlwall (2001). Following this idea, we...

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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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Property Rights and their Impact on the Wealth of Nations-A Cross-Country Study

Heitger, Bernhard - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

This paper investigates the quality of property rights and long-term economic growth in an international cross-section of countries in 1975-1995. The empirical tests indicate that the impact of private property rights on growth is positive and simultaneously determined. Correcting for the...

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Do Sources of Knowledge Transfer Matter? – A Firm-level Analysis in the PRD, China

LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper investigates whether knowledge transferred from different sources matter differently for carrying out different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also investigates whether companies in the PRD in China tend to...

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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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