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The Evolution of Comparative Advantage : Measurement and Welfare Implications

Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2011

We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...

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International Evidence of Strengthening Taxes and Spending For Sustainable Development

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Hien Nguyen; Park, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We trace the linkages between the episodes of fiscal expansion and consolidation in 72 advanced and emerging and developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn is positively linked with better sustainable...

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The Baker Hypothesis

Chari, Anusha - 2020

In 1985, James A. Baker III's "Program for Sustained Growth" proposed a set of economic policy reforms including, inflation stabilization, trade liberalization, greater openness to foreign investment, and privatization, that he believed would lead to faster growth in countries then known as the...

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The Illusion of Sustainability

Kremer, Michael - 2004

The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs and toward focusing on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards sustainability,' which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This...

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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth

Popp, David - 2012

By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...

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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry

Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...

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The Production and Inventory Behavior of the American Automobile Industry

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1982

Understanding inventory movements is central to an understanding of business cycles. This paper presents an empirical study of the behavior of inventories in the automobile industry. It finds that inventory behavior is well explained by the assumption of intertemporal optimization with rational...

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Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production

Benzarti, Youssef - 2020

This paper uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll taxes to estimate their incidence and investigate how firms use their input factors. We find that higher payroll tax rates lead to large employment responses and have no effects on employee earnings. As payroll taxes increase, firms...

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Misallocation in the Market for Inputs : Enforcement and the Organization of Production

Boehm, Johannes - 2018

Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with …

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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory : Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

Atack, Jeremy - 2008

Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory … of extensive railroad network. Using a newly created data set of manufacturing establishments linked to county level data … on rail access from 1850-70, we ask whether the coming of the railroad increased establishment size in manufacturing …

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