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This paper defines economic slumps as sequences of structural breaks exhibiting a specific pattern. We identify 58 such episodes between 1950 and 2008 among 138 countries, and then examine the phases of decline and their duration. In some countries declines last extremely long, and we put...
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, which reduces investment and economic growth over time. (iii) Wage increases in the resource-intensive sector that spill …
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diversification as an essential aspect of national risk management aimed at promoting efficiency, growth, and welfare. The paper first … encourage more stable long-run economic growth. Thereafter, the paper considers Iceland as a case study of the intertwined …
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document a significant negative effect of international sanctions on GDP growth and its components (consumption, investment …
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document a significant negative effect of international sanctions on GDP growth and its components (consumption, investment …
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growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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We introduce distributive justice into a simple model of growth and distribution. Two groups (‘classes’) of otherwise … supplies one unit of labour inelastically and desires a wage; and that the labour share impacts growth negatively in our ‘AK … conflict is resolved by the two positive and three normative criteria we consider. Thus, the macroeconomy (growth, factor …
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between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high … bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast with previous contributions, we develop a model of growth with … between the probability that the incumbent politician remains in office and average economic growth in the presence of high …
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-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 …
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After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …
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