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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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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 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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Donors’ Openness to Immigration and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
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Does growth attract FDI?
Iamsiraroj, Sasi; Doucouliagos, Hristos - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
FDI is seen widely as a vital source of investment, technology transfer, and growth. The factors that attract FDI have been a longstanding source of debate. The authors present a comprehensive assessment of the accumulated evidence on one factor, the success of economic growth in attracting FDI....
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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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Openness to international trade and economic growth: A cross-country empirical investigation
Ulaşan, Bülent - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper, we revisit the empirical evidence on the relationship between trade openness and long-run economic … reassesses the openness-growth nexus over a much longer sample period, enabling us to better account both trade policy stance and … literature rather than relying on a few proxy variables. We also construct three additional composite trade policy indexes …
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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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