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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 … period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new indices of infrastructure and provide country rankings, which we also … compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …

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The Location Choices of Foreign Investors: A District-level Analysis in India

Mukim, Megha; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

. They are also attracted to industrially diverse locations and those with better infrastructure. We conclude that the … concentration of FDI in a few locations could fuel regional divergence in post-reform India …

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Does Migration Raise Agricultural Investment? An Empirical Analysis for Rural Mexico

Böhme, Marcus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The effect of remittances on capital accumulation remains a contested topic. This paper uses a panel data set from rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable...

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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

We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face...

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the Emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...

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Growing up to Financial Stability

Bordo, Michael D. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This lecture revisits the evidence on the incidence and severity of different varieties of financial crises within the context of globalization then (pre-1914) and now (1980 to the present). I then discuss the determinants of emerging market crises from the perspective of the recent balance...

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GEM-PIA: A Real-Financial General Equilibrium Model for Poverty Impact Analysis ; Technical Description

Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

This paper provides a technical description of GEM-PIA, a recursive-dynamic computable General Equilibrium Model for Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset portfolio behavior of macromodels, thereby addressing the...

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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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The agricultural and the democratic transitions. Causality and the Roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the data. Long-run development (in income) also causes a large increase in democracy known as the...

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