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Does Household Borrowing Reduce the Trade Balance? Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
Xu, Can; Jacobs, Jan; de Haan, Jakob - 2021
We examine the dynamic impact of household borrowing on the trade balance using data from 33 developing countries and 36 developed countries over the 1980-2017 period. Our findings suggest that the impact of household borrowing on the trade balance is by and large negative, both in the short and...
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The patterns of inter-firm and inter-industry knowledge flows in the Netherlands
Plasmans, Joseph; Lukach, Ruslan - 2010
This paper presents a study of backward and forward patent citations in patents granted to firms and institutions in … the Netherlands by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The study establishes different patterns of … patent citation in recent Dutch patents belonging to different industrial classes. We run our model in the set of backward …
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
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Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?
Bick, Alexander - 2020
Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? We consider two natural explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems, which are more prevalent in richer countries. To...
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Different No More : Country Spreads in Advanced and Emerging Economies
Born, Benjamin - 2020
Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841745
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The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
Brell, Courtney - 2020
We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...
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Minimum Wage and Collective Bargaining Reforms : A Narrative Database for Advance Economies
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022
This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...
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The Asymmetric Impact of Economic Policy and Oil Price Uncertainty on Inflation : Evidence from Developed and Emerging Economies
Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2023
This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on inflation by using a Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model, which is compared to a benchmark linear ARDL one. Using monthly data from the 1990s until August 2022 for a number of developed and...
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Borders and distance in knowledge spillovers: dying over time or dying with age? ; evidence from patent citations
Li, Yao - 2009
in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan … level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited countries outside the U.S. We present 3 key findings: First, we find … of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264618
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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
variation to establish causality. By analysing patent citation data, we further provide evidence that these positive effects are …
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