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Protectionism and Economic Growth: Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization

Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020

We investigate how protectionist policies influence economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We employ the...

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Trade Liberalization and Local Development in India: Evidence from Nighttime Lights

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2023

We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights per capita but there was considerable heterogeneity...

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Trade Liberalization and Local Development in India : Evidence from Nighttime Lights

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2023

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Protectionism and Economic Growth : Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization

Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021

We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227482

An Open-Economy Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans Model in Reduced Form

Spiro, Daniel - 2021

-economy income convergence. Where RCK predicts partial income and consumption convergence between open economies Solow predicts full … convergence. This paper presents, by a small modification of the savings behavior in the Solow model, a framework that matches RCK … country size; that income growth will be a U-shaped function of initial income thus creating differentiated convergence; and …

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Dutch disease in the post-Soviet countries of Central and South-West Asia: How contagious is it?

Egert, Balazs - 2013

This study seeks to determine the extent to which the former communist states of Central and South-West Asia are infected by the Dutch Disease. We take a detailed look at the functioning of the transmission mechanism of the Dutch Disease, i.e. the chains that run from commodity prices to real...

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The Political Economy of Educational Content and Development: Lessons from History

Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2013

Beyond years of schooling, educational content can play an important role in the process of economic development. Individuals' choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills. We first present...

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Trade, Factor Mobility and the Extent of Economic Integration: Theory and Evidence

Mikolajun, Irena; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2015

The Middle East was once seen as a medieval great globalized force. Nowadays it shows one of the lowest intra-regional trade in the world and therefore it is claimed that the region is poorly integrated. Yet, with the steady .ow of workers across national borders of the Middle East is this...

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The Nature of Conflict

Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015

This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...

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Banking and Industrialization

Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...

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