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Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India : Evidence from Night Lights Data
Ranjan, Priya; Talathi, Karan - 2021
institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …
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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892151
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Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Europe - Past, Present and Future
Duernecker, Georg; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel - 2021
This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …
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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections
de Haan, Jakob - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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Heavyweights - The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2021
business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …
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Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth
Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; vom Lehn, Christian - 2023
stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …
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Macroeconomic Policy and Development in India : Some Analytical Issues
Sen, Partha - 2023
Should a developing economy, such as India, have a macroeconomic policy framework that is identical to an advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264153
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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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Devotion and Development : Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France
Squicciarini, Mara - 2020
This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development and through which mechanism. I examine Catholicism in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914). In this period, technology became skill-intensive, leading to the introduction of...
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The role of the state in economic development
Tabellini, Guido - 2004
This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...
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