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Protectionism and Economic Growth : Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
government revenue. However, the results do not suggest that the protectionist government stimulated the economy by increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227482
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Fast Fashion : Theory and Evidence from Portuguese Textile and Clothing Firms
Fernandes, Ana - 2020
We study how firms respond to import competition by increasing the speed of trade. We use data on all Portuguese textile and clothing exporters' monthly transactions and exploit the exogenous increase in competition following the removal of Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas on Chinese...
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The Japanese Textile Sector and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920
Noy, Ilan; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric - 2021
of the economy and society that becomes exposed to it, and the actions chosen by government and by individuals and … communities to combat it or ameliorate its economic impact. Surprisingly, there has not been much research on the economy of the …
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The Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan : The Case of Daocheng County
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841142
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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892107
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Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy : A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One
Medina, Leandro - 2019
estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by … far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP and the shadow economy is larger in Latin America and Sub ….9%. What is really remarkable, that the average decline of the shadow economy from 1991 to 2017 is 6.8 percentage points. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857902
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Economic-social interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar - 2008
This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264279
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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908729
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao - 2019
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892049
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Russians' "Impressionable Years" : Life Experience During the Exit from Communism and Putin-Era Beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
This article links Russians' individual experiences during the late-Gorbachev and early-Yeltsin years to the beliefs those same individuals espoused in the Putin era, over a decade later. Drawing on questions, some of which are retrospective, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830108