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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century
Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266002
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Weber Revisited : The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism
Kersting, Felix - 2020
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828120
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The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven - 2019
This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859600
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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012
production networks. In the 1970-80´s, South Asia stagnated due to its inward-oriented growth strategy and lack of infrastructure … connectivity-resulting in low trade integration and regional connectivity within the region and with Southeast and East Asia …. However, since 1991, South Asia, particularly India has adopted a Look East policy and opened its market raising huge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282051
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
expenditures in Asia. Neither do the results suggest that the nexus between globalisation and social expenditures varied across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892254
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The Implications of the New Silk Road Railways on Local Development
Fang, Ling - 2019
This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859984
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Public Spending and Government Performance in Europe and Asia : Tigers Today and in the Future
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2022
Asia. Public spending and performance patterns differ hugely across countries. Asian “tigers” and some advanced countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296721
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Quantifying the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2018
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model, featuring multiple sectors, input-output linkages, services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908655
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Trade and Credit Reallocation : How Banks Help Shape Comparative Advantage
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2019
Trade and innovation cause structural change. Productive factors must flow from declining to growing industries. Banks play a major role in cutting credit to non-viable firms in downsizing sectors and in providing new credit to finance investment in expanding, innovative sectors. Structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892187
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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
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