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Trade Policy, Exchange Rates and Growth
Edwards, Sebastian - 1993
This paper analyzes the relationship between trade policy and economic performance. The paper is divided in two fundamental parts. The first one uses a cross country data set to investigate the relationship between trade policy and productivity growth. It is found that countries that are more...
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Spatial Structural Change
Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non …
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Enterprising America : businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective
Collins, William J. (contributor);  … - 2015
Introduction / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Business organization and internal governance. Revisiting American exceptionalism: democracy and the regulation of corporate governance: the case of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania in comparative context / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381927
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Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change : Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
Brown, Mark - 2017
We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Branstetter, Lee - 2009
This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463256
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
with disdain for work. We propose an economic theory of preference formation where both the divergence of attitudes across … social classes and the ensuing reversal of economic fortunes are equilibrium outcomes. In our theory, parents shape their …, which are rooted in the nature of pre-industrial professions, become key determinants of success once industrialization …
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The Transition to a New Economy After the Second Industrial Revolution
Atkeson, Andrew - 2001
During the Second Industrial Revolution, 1860-1900, many new technologies, including electricity, were invented. These inventions launched a transition to a new economy, a period of about 70 years of ongoing, rapid technical change. After this revolution began, however, several decades passed...
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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrializatiion : The Geography of Growth Take-Offs
Baldwin, Richard E. - 1998
phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …
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Foreign Direct Investment as a Catalyst for Industrial Development
Markusen, James R. - 1997
How does an FDI project affect local firms in the same industry? Competition in the" product and factor markets tends to reduce profits of local firms, but linkage effects to supplier" industries may reduce input costs and raise profits. This paper develops an analytical framework" to assess...
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Externalities and Industrial Development
Henderson, J. Vernon - 1994
Using a panel data set of county-level employment in machinery, electrical machinery, primary metals, transportation, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for individual industries. Key issues examined include the role of externalities from own industry...
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