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Financial Development and Output Growth in Developing Asia and Latin America : A Comparative Sectoral Analysis
Aizenman, Joshua - 2015
We use data from the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) database to perform preliminary empirical analysis of the interplay between quality and quantity of finance in accounting for the output growth of ten sectors. We review the existing literature and some salient open questions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457749
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Foreign Technology Adoption as a Flying Propeller
Hu, Yunfang; Kunieda, Takuma; Nishimura, Kazuo; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption, incorporating adoption barriers, international technology spillover, and relative price advantages. A higher FDI conversion efficacy, a lower adoption barrier, or a stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250176
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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Rousseau, Peter L. - 2001
This paper brings together two strands of the economic literature -- that on the finance-growth nexus and that on capital market integration -- and explores key issues surrounding each strand through both institutional/country histories and formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470401
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The Common Development of Institutional Change as Measured by Income Velocity : A Century of Evidence from Industrialized Countries
Bordo, Michael D. - 1993
Previous evidence, most recently by Bordo and Jonung (1990) and Silclos (1988b, 1991), has shown on a country-by-country basis that proxies for institutional change significantly improve our understanding of the long-run behaviour of velocity and. consequently, of the demand for money. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474574
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Risk, Government and Globalization : International Survey Evidence
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2007
This paper uses international survey data to document two stylized facts. First, risk aversion is associated with anti-trade attitudes. Second, this effect is smaller in countries with greater levels of government expenditure. The paper thus provides evidence for the microeconomic underpinnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465617
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Explaining Foreign Holdings of Asia's Debt Securities : The Feldstein-Horioka Paradox Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2015
the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … and that foreign holdings of debt securities have been increasing in advanced as well as developing Asia but for different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456936
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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals
Li, Chunding - 2014
This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458242
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How Close is Asia to Already Being A Trade Bloc?
Li, Chunding - 2014
FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans … potential full Asia integration in the form of a trade bloc. Our results reveal that these large Asia economies can be close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458243
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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468276
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EMU : Ready, or Not?
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471509