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The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev; Panagariya, Arvind - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing growth has been widely studied in the literature. What has gone unappreciated is that accelerated manufacturing growth has also been accompanied by accelerated services growth. Using firm-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from...
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Open Door Policy and China's Rapid Growth: Evidence from City-level Data
Wei, Shang-Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
There is clear evidence that during 1980-90 more exports are positively associated with higher growth rates across Chinese cities. In comparison, in the late 1980s, the contribution to growth comes mainly from foreign investment. The contribution of foreign investment comes in the form of...
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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin; Yared, Pierre; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
consistent with the policy outcomes in a centrally planned economy in which the government is unable to easily collect and …
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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies
Sonin, Konstantin; Egorov, Georgy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In elections that take place in a less-than-perfect democracy, incumbency advantages are different from those in mature democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate his main opponents. At the same time, formally...
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Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance
Kowalski, Amanda E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
. However, the welfare impact of moral hazard and risk protection are both small relative to transfers from the government …
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Agglomeration, Integration and Tax Harmonization
Baldwin, Richard; Krugman, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
We show that agglomeration forces can reverse standard international-tax-competition results. Closer integration may result first in a race to the top' and then a race to the bottom, a result that is consistent with recent empirical work showing that the tax gap between rich and poor nations...
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Program Evaluation and Research Designs
DiNardo, John Enrico; Lee, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...
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The Economics of Vouchers
Bradford, David F.; Shaviro, Daniel N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
This paper aims to provide a swift tour of the economic issues presented by vouchers and thus to fill an apparent gap in the literature for a basic survey of the subject. Among the issues it considers are: factors determining a voucher's cash-equivalence; reasons (such as paternalism,...
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Effects of Air Quality Regulation
Henderson, J. Vernon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
This paper investigates the effects of local regulatory effort on ground level ozone air quality and on industrial location. Local regulatory effort varies by annual air quality attainment status and by state attitudes towards the environment. A switch from attainment to non-attainment status...
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Fiscal Policies, Capital Formation, and Capitalism
Feldstein, Martin S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
cost the government $530 billion or $16,000 per person over 65. A final section discusses the implications of international … capital flows for this analysis. As capital flows become more important, the response of government policy may be to compete … trade and led to a new interest in industrial policies that expand the role of the government in guiding the direction of …
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