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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/10012179903
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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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Pound for Pound Export Diversification
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
We propose a short-run model of the extensive margin of trade and deploy it to distinguish and quantify domestic and cross-border margins. Our empirical focus is on the domestic extensive margin of trade (domestic distribution of a product) and its importance for quantifying policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251272
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Mistaking Noise for Bias - Victimhood and Hutu-Tutsi Reconciliation in East Africa
Blouin, Arthur; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2022
challenges facing post-conflict societies. Using experimental data from post-genocide Rwanda and Burundi, this paper shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080045
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Why are Women less Democratic than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries
García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - 2013
A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328799
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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2019
Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866374
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Private Information and Optimal Infant Industry Protection
Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond G.; Zhang, Yuzhe - 2022
We study infant industry protection using a dynamic model in which the industry's cost is initially higher than that of foreign competitors. The industry can stochastically lower its cost via learning by doing. Whether the industry has transitioned to low cost is private information. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353384
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A Global Perspective on the Incidence of Monopoly Distortions
Ding, Siying; Lashkaripour, Ahmad; Lugovskyy, Volodymyr - 2024
We develop a method to measure the incidence of monopolistic markup distortions in the global economy. Using semi-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup dispersion, and (2) international...
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The Political Economy of Industrial Policy
Juhász, Réka; Lane, Nathan - 2024
We examine the ways in which political realities shape industrial policy through the lens of modern political economy. We consider two broad “governance constraints”: i) the political forces that shape how industrial policy is chosen and ii) the ways in which state capacity affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047291
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Subsidizing national champions: an evolutionary perspective
Aubert, Cécile; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264424