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Autocratic transitions and growth
Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2010
-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth … of countries that experienced a transition to autocracy with the growth of a convex combination of similar countries that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266104
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter’s productivity growth is … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584915
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892254
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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015
What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388201
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Terror Per Capita
Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017
Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in...
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Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood
Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin F.; Ziaja, Sebastian - 2017
We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...
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The KOF Globalisation Index - Revisited
Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Sturm, … - 2018
growth. The results suggest that de facto and de jure globalization influence economic growth differently. Future research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018121
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus: Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932080
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Evidence and implications of Zipf's aw for integrated economies
Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2006
). We demonstrate that each member's shares of total output and of total factors will be equal. This implies that growth in … imply that models characterizing growth of members within an FIE should embody a key assumption: growth process of shares is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263933
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The global joint distribution of income and health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - 2008
We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264413