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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
.0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839262
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is noncompulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261393
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274453
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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income: A new panel IV approach
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011
Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277354
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What determines BITs?
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Egger, Peter - 2011
model of world trade and foreign direct investment with three factors, two products, and explicit natural as well as policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277392