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Household Formation and Residential Energy Demand: Evidence from Japan
Schröder, Carsten; Rehdanz, Katrin; Narita, Daiju; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
We use a large household panel for Japan (Keio Household Panel Survey) to estimate household-size economies in energy consumption. The household-size economies we obtain are significant and sizable: the per-capita energy-related spending of a two-adult household is only about two-thirds of the...
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Economic Reforms, Foreign Direct Investment and its Economic Effects in India
Chakraborty, Chandana; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has boomed in post-reform India. Moreover, the composition and type of FDI has changed … considerably since India has opened up to world markets. This has fuelled high expectations that FDI may serve as a catalyst to … higher economic growth. We assess the growth implications of FDI in India by subjecting industry-specific FDI and output data …
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Government Ideology in Donor and Recipient Countries: Does Political Proximity Matter for the Effectiveness of Aid?
Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...
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Government Activity and Economic Growth – One Size Fits All?
Beckmann, Joscha; Endrich, Marek; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic...
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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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The finance-growth nexus revisited: From origins to a modern theoretical landscape
Stolbov, Mikhail - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
The paper is a survey of theoretical and empirical approaches applied to analyze the impact of financial system on economic growth. The key issues of the modern theories of the finance-growth nexus are discussed and the theories are classified on the basis of the methodology they rely on. The...
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Revenue and expenditure nexus: A case study of ECOWAS
Magazzino, Cosimo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper aims to assess the relationship among fiscal variables (net lending, government expenditure and revenue) and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries. Using yearly data for the period between 1980 and 2011 in 15 ECOWAS countries, a weak long-run relationship between government...
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Equity market liberalization, credit constraints and income inequality
Sun, Puyang; Sen, Somnath; Jin, Shujing - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper provides compelling evidence that equity market liberalization, the most efficient way to smooth financial market frictions such as credit constraints, can alleviate persistent cross-dynastic income inequality through increasing the accumulation of human capital. We examine the impact...
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The growth effects of R&D spending in the EU: A meta-analysis
Kokko, Ari; Tingvall, Patrik Gustavsson; Videnord, Josefin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
In this paper the authors conduct a meta-analysis to examine the link between R&D spending and economic growth in the EU and other regions. The results suggest that the growth-enhancing effect of R&D in the EU15 countries does not differ from that in other countries in general, but it is less...
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The Universal Shape of Economic Recession and Recovery after a Shock
Challet, Damien; Solomon, Sorin; Yaari, Gur - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
We show that a simple and intuitive three-parameter equation fits remarkably well the evolution of the gross domestic product (GDP) in current and constant dollars of many countries during the times of recession and recovery. We then argue that it can be used to detect shocks and discuss its...
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