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Trade, Growth and the Environment
Copeland, Brian R. - 2003
, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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Borders and Growth
Spolaore, Enrico - 2002
negative effect through reduced openness vis-…-vis the rest of the world. We estimate the growth effects that would have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469486
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Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income : Estimating the Interrelationships
Rigobon, Roberto - 2004
We estimate the interrelationships among economic institutions, political institutions, openness, and income levels, using identification through heteroskedasticity (IH). We split our cross-national dataset into two sub-samples: (i) colonies versus non-colonies; and (ii) continents aligned on an...
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International Trade and Per Capita Income Convergence : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1998
In this paper I analyze whether international trade contributes to per capita income convergence across countries. The analysis focuses on four important post-1945 multilateral trade liberalizations. To identify trade's effect on income dispersion, in each case I use a difference-in-differences'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472251
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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence
Rodriguez, Francisco - 1999
Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form …
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Systemic Crises and Growth
Ranciere, Romain - 2005
In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...
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Once Again, is Openness Good for Growth?
Lee, Ha Yan - 2004
Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000) argue that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467941
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Trade Liberalization and Growth : New Evidence
Wacziarg, Romain - 2003
growth to the 1990s, discussing recent criticisms of their measurement and estimation framework. Our results suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468542
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Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse After 1950?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2002
This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World … controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic environment. Rejecting alternative explanations based on changing … head in a world environment characterized by a moderately higher level of generalized tariff protection. We confirm the …
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