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Ethnic Geography : Measurement and Evidence
Hodler, Roland - 2018
social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial … distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we can decompose this index into indices of spatial dispersion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930690
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Banking Crises and Crisis Dating : Theory and Evidence
Boyd, John H.; De Nicolo, Gianni; Loukoianova, Elena - 2021
We formulate a simple theoretical model of a banking industry that we use to identify and construct theory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from “banking crisis” (BC) indicators employed in many empirical studies, which are constructed using primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316186
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The Complementary between Technology and Human Capital in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003523
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Can General Purpose Technology Theory Explain Economic Growth? Electrical Power as a Case Study
Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea - 2015
Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033865
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Climate Change Mitigation Options and Directed Technical Change : A Decentralized Equilibrium Analysis
Grimaud, Andre - 2013
The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) efficiency. First, we characterize the set of decentralized equilibria: A particular equilibrium is associated to each vector of public tools which includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095228
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International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization
Bosetti, Valentina - 2014
different regions of the world? Does the speed of innovation increase? Or do free-riding incentives prevail and international … economic growth; hence, any better understanding of the process of technological innovation is likely to increase our knowledge … regional model of the world economy, in which energy technical change is endogenous. The focus is on disembodied energy Ramp …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751854
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Stranded Assets, the Social Cost of Carbon, and Directed Technical Change : Macroeconomic Dynamics of Optimal Climate Policy
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2016
The tractable general equilibrium model developed by Golosov et al. (2014), GHKT for short, is modified to allow for stock-dependent fossil fuel extraction costs and partial exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves, a negative impact of global warming on growth, mean reversion in climate damages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996198
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129859
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Natural Resource Endowment : A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129862
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796