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Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Sturm, … - 2018

We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006) and updated in Dreher et al. (2008). This second...

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Growth, expectations, and tariffs

Honkapohja, Seppo; Turunen-Red, Arja H.; Woodland, Alan D. - 2011

We study a many country endogenous growth model in which decisions about innovation and new investment are influenced by growth expectations. Adaptive learning dynamics determine country-specific short run transition paths. Countries differ in basic structural parameters and may impose tariffs...

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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income: A new panel IV approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...

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Subnational Income Growth and International Border Effects

Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Stadelmann, David - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...

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The KOF Globalisation Index - Revisited

Gygli, Savina - 2019

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Subnational Income Growth and International Border Effects

Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Stadelmann, David - 2021

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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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Transportation Costs and the Great Divergence

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014

enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading economies. In contrast, reductions in transportation costs of non …

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Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Diversification, Dutch Disease, and Economic Growth: Options for Uganda

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Nguessa Nganou, Jean-Pascal - 2014

Natural resource discoveries, even when fairly modest in terms of the revenues they are expected to generate, can have significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no different from other oil-rich countries. In five...

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