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Productive government expenditure and economic growth

Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2008

We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...

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Ideologically-charged terminology: austerity, fiscal consolidation, and sustainable governance

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

Scholars have been active in investigating causes and consequences of austerity policies. We examine how economists use the term “austerity” in scientific studies and measure austerity in empirical analyses. The sample includes around 3,500 journal articles published in the top 400 journals...

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Structural Reforms and Income Inequality: Who Benefits from Market-Oriented Reforms?

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020

We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...

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Railways and the Productivity Gap in Italy: Persistence and Divergence after Unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers across the pre-existing states, with a single currency. Market integration was the economic outcome of this process. At the same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large...

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A pair-wise approach to testing for output and growth convergence

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2004

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also …-2000. Overall, the results do not support output convergence, and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature …

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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022

We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...

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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument

Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country’s probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...

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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries

Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - 2014

We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...

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A convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth

Funke, Michael; Gronwald, Marc - 2009

In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the question what would happen if African countries were more...

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Socio-political conflict and economic performance in Bolivia

Evia, Jose Luis; Laserna, Roberto; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2008

We examine how socio-political conflict in Bolivia has affected its economic performance since the 1970s. Such conflict includes strikes, demonstrations, road blockades, and conventional rent-seeking. Since conflict has costs, it diverts resources away from production, tends to reduce investment...

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