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The Contribution of Human Capital and its Policies to Per Capita Income in Europe and the OECD

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2021

This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...

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Economic growth and development : towards a catchup model

Li, Jie; Ayres, Robert U. - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 40 (2008) 1, pp. 1-36

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Is there a long-term relationship between agricultural GHG emissions and productivity growth? : a dynamic panel data approach

Coderoni, Silvia; Esposti, Roberto - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 58 (2014) 2, pp. 273-302

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Environmental Kuznets curve : tipping points, uncertainty and weak identification

Bernard, Jean-Thomas; Gavin, Michael; Khalaf, Lynda; … - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 60 (2015) 2, pp. 285-315

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Sectoral Okun's Law and Cross-Country Cyclical Differences

Goto, Eiji - 2020

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...

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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

Bluhm, Richard - 2019

The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...

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Great Volatility and Great Moderation

Grazzini, Jakob - 2019

We investigate the sources of the great changes in GDP volatility observed from 1966 to 2000. We develop a general equilibrium model and calibrate it to US data in order to characterize the contribution of micro level productivity shocks, inter-sectoral linkages and households' behavior to...

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Climate Change Expectations and Endogenous Economic Growth in the Dice Model

Ciesielski, Anna - 2019

This paper studies the investment based growth rate effects of climate change. The analysis is based on the Integrated Assessment Model DICE by Nordhaus (2008). I depart from the original model, in that endogenous investments into a knowledge stock drive economic growth. Due to a negative...

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The Euro Crisis and Economic Growth : A Novel Counterfactual Approach

Terzi, Alessio - 2019

Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone crisis countries (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain)...

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