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The international economics of natural resources and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason (contributor) - 2007

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A mixed blessing : natural resources and economic growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Tryggvi Þor Herbertsson; Gylfi Zoega - 1997

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Gotcha! : a profile of smuggling in international trade

Berger, Helge (contributor); Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2008

the world’s five largest importers for the period from 2002-2006, we find that the reporting gaps are highly correlated … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly … represent smuggling activities. -- Corruption ; illicit ; illegal ; trade ; statistics ; tariffs …

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International taxation and multinational firm location decisions

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2008

Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of...

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Central bank boards around the world : why does membership size differ?

Berger, Helge (contributor); Nitsch, Volker (contributor); … - 2007

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Too many cooks? : committees in monetary policy

Berger, Helge (contributor); Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2008

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Natural resource endowment : a mixed blessing?

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010049

Nature, power, and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and … protection, corruption, and income inequality. The cross-sectional data show, moreover, that the share of the primary sector in …

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Capital controls and exchange rate regimes : an empirical investigation

Berger, Helge; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2001

It is often argued that deregulation of international transactions and its effects on the globalization of financial markets is behind the decline in the attractiveness of fixed exchange rate regimes. We argue that, instead, much of the recently observed decrease in the level of capital controls...

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Factor price equalization? : the cointegration approach revisited

Berger, Helge; Westermann, Frank - 2001

Factor price equality across countries is an important implication of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of international trade. Although an influential theoretical result, the model has received surprisingly little empirical support. Burgman and Geppert (1993) argue that this might be due to...

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