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panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study …
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We examine empirically how legal origin, creditor rights, property rights, legal formalism, and financial development affect the design of price and non-price terms of bank loans in almost 60 countries. Our results support the law and finance view that private contracts reflect differences in...
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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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This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national institutions on bank net interest margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling for bank-specific characteristics. The data indicate that tighter regulations on...
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world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …
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This paper looks at the patterns of causation between income, export, import, and investment growth for 25 developing …
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This paper revisits the association between investment and growth. The empirical findings highlight substantial … heterogeneity for the effect of investment on growth and suggest a possible negative association. Results based on a battery of … cross-sectional and time-series regressions show that the link between investment and growth has weakened over time and that …
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We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing investment and thereby … volatility and growth. We first develop a simple growth model where firms engage in two types of investment: a short-term one and … a long-term productivity-enhancing one. Because it takes longer to complete, long-term investment has a relatively less …
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growth to the 1990s, discussing recent criticisms of their measurement and estimation framework. Our results suggest that the …. Third, and most importantly, we present new evidence on the time paths of economic growth, physical capital investment and … liberalization has, on average, robust positive effects on growth, openness and investment rates within countries. We illustrate …
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Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
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