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Privatization and State Capacity in Postcommunist Society

King, Lawrence; Hamm, Patrick - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

back on the enterprise sector, as the state can no longer support the institutions necessary for the effective functioning … implementation of mass privatization programs negatively impacts measures of economic growth, state capacity and the security of …

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SUPPORTING AFRICA’S POST-CRISIS GROWTH: THE ROLE OF MACROECONOMIC POLICIES

Brixiová, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Léonce; Abderrahim, Kaouther - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

income countries, reach strong, sustained and shared growth in the post-crisis world. The paper first reviews, with a special … focus on LICs, macroeconomic policies in Africa prior to the crisis. It then discusses factors behind ‘the Africa surprise … predominated prior to the crisis towards growth. Fiscal policy is key in this regard, through public outlays on infrastructure …

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Economic Reform in Tanzania and Vietnam: A Comparative Commentary

Arkadie, Brian Van; Dinh, Do Duc - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

The economic reforms in Tanzania and Vietnam represent the two typical cases of transition economies in Asia and Africa … change in population growth, the investment in human capital, the growth of GDP, the structural sransformation, the linkage … between gricultural growth, rural development, food production and poverty alleviation, the reform in the industrial sector …

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Economic (In)Security and Gender Differences in Trade Policy Attitudes

Drope, Jeffrey; Chowdhury, Abdur - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

Over time and across countries, researchers have noted frequent and mostly unexplained gender differences in the levels of support for policies of free or freer trade: women tend to be less favorable toward policies of liberalizing trade than men. Using an economic security explanation based...

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Incomplete Specialization and Trade in Parts and Components

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2013

Within a higher-dimensional incomplete specialization Heckscher-Ohlin framework, we first develop a gravity model that views bilateral gravity equations as statistical relationships constrained on countries’ multilateral specialization patterns. Second, we test our model empirically by using a...

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Do Borders Really Slash Trade? A Meta-Analysis

Havranek, Tomas; Irsova, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2015

National borders reduce trade, but most estimates of the border effect seem puzzlingly large. We show that major methodological innovations of the last decade combine to shrink the border effect to a mere 28% reduction in international trade ows worldwide. The border effect varies across...

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Specialization, gravity, and European trade in final goods

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2013

By combining and extending the previous literature, we develop and test a gravity specification that views bilateral gravity equations rooted in a Heckscher-Ohlin framework as statistical relationships constrained on countries’ multilateral specialization patterns. According to our results,...

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Entry Costs & Increasing Trade

Lincoln, William F.; McCallum, Andrew H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

Using confidential microdata from the US Census, we find that the fraction of manufacturing plants that export rose from 21% in 1987 to 39% in 2006. It has been suggested that similar trends in other countries may have been caused by declining costs of entering foreign markets. Our study tests...

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of “dirty” goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

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EXPORTS AND PROPERTY PRICES IN FRANCE: ARE THEY CONNECTED?

Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price...

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