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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier; Jetter, Michael; … - 2016

This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...

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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017

We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...

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Dynamics and Time Scope of Post War Recovery Required for Compensating Civil War Economic Losses

Nam, Chang Woon; Schumacher, Jan - 2013

Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional economic, social and political system, leading...

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Prices vs. Quantities with Endogenous Cost Structure

Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - 2014

significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …

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Forecastability and Statistical Characteristics of Aggregate Oil and Gas Investments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Lorentzen, Sindre; Osmundsen, Petter - 2016

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

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The Quantification of Structural Reforms in OECD Countries: A New Framework

Egert, Balazs; Gal, Peter - 2017

This document describes and discusses a new supply side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries. It presents the overall macroeconomic impacts of reforms by aggregating over the effects on physical capital, employment and productivity...

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Can government demand stimulate private investment? Evidence from U.S. federal procurement

Hebous, Shafik; Zimmermann, Tom - 2019

We study the effects of federal purchases on firm investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal … firms’ capital investment by 10 to 13 cents. In line with the financial accelerator model, our findings indicate that the …-level analysis suggests that that the increase in investment at the firm level translates into an industry-wide effect without …

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China’s overinvestment and international trade conflict

Schnabl, Gunther - 2019

For a long time, China’s impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based … sustainability of China’s investment- and export-driven growth model. It is shown that since the turn of the millennium buoyant …

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Recent Trade Dynamics in Asia: Examples from Specific Industries

Auboin, Marc; Borino, Floriana - 2018

This paper looks at the extent to which the shift in the lower value added production to countries in the following development “tier” is actually becoming a reality. Several countries in East Asia have been upgrading production patterns and moving up the value chain, this paper looks at how...

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The Falling Elasticity of Global Trade to Economic Activity: Testing the Demand Channel

Auboin, Marc; Borino, Floriana - 2018

Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre-crisis, in both absolute terms (growth rates) and relative terms (relative to GDP, from 2:1 in the great 1990’s to 1:1 since 2012) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade...

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