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Untangling the Quality of Governance from the Level of Income: Are Sub-Saharan African Countries Governed Well?

Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic …

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The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: The Effects of Malaria Prevalence in the Empirics of Development

Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and others. My estimates show that the reported missing direct performance effects of a measure of...

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Two Views on Institutions and Development: The Grand Transition vs. the Primacy of Institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …

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The Social Impact of Structural Adjustment in Bolivia

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

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …

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Capital mobility and growth

Diehl, Markus; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

We suggest a new way to quantify the growth effects of capital mobility. We find that for reasonable parameter values, capital mobility has a large impact on income growth.

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How agglomeration in the financial services industry influences economic growth: Evidence from Chinese cities

Liang, Lin; Lin, Shanglang; Li, Yong - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper empirically tests the effect of financial knowledge spillovers on agglomeration in China's financial services industry and examines the external effects on cities' economies. The authors apply hierarchical linear modeling to examine a data set that comprises 276 Chinese cities and...

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Decompositions of Wage Inequality and Growth in an Advanced Economy open to Trade

Edwards, T. Huw; Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to … for both growth and inequality. Calibrated TFP growth is consistent with the results from nonparametric growth accounting … more problems to modelling inequality than with growth: in particular, the main models in the literature, which take skill …

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A note on economic growth and human capital in Eastern Europe

Foders, Federico - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper addresses the poor economic performance of Eastern Europe in the 1990s and the future development potential …

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Second thoughts on development accounting

Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Wößmann, Ludger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which …

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

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

This paper is a preliminary appraisal ofthe stylised facts and the major open questions - both methodological and 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...

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