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Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

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Role of Finance in Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman Model of International Trade

Marjit, Sugata; Dutta, Meghna; Roy, Moushakhi - 2022

This paper introduces finance or credit in the Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman (DSK) model of international trade. It identifies … mechanisms by which finance can affect the main results of the conventional model. The key results are as follows. Perfect credit … output per variety. Thus, availability of finance will determine a specific trade pattern between richer and poorer nations …

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Open Economy Public Finance

Wildasin, David E. - 2021

Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open …

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Tax Responses in Local Public Finance : The Flypaper Effect at Work

Köthenbürger, Marko; Loumeau, Gabriel - 2023

The transfer elasticity of income tax rates is an important parameter in public finance. Given the significant fiscal …

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Does Public Sector Outsourcing Decrease Public Employment? Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

Potrafke, Niklas - 2018

I examine the extent to which public sector outsourcing relates to public employment in OECD countries. I use new panel data on public sector outsourcing. The sample includes 26 countries over the period 2009-2015. Contrary to common expectations, the results do not suggest that public sector...

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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015

This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...

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Product Variety and Economic Growth - Empirical Evidence for the OECD Countries

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - 2000

Utilizing panel data for 19 OECD countries we find suppor t for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the US helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export...

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Trade Flows, Private Credit and the COVID-19-Pandemic : Panel Evidence from 35 OECD Countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2021

the trade-finance nexus …

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