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Egger, Peter H. - 2016

We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...

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Physiological Constraints and Comparative Economic Development

Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan - 2018

the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present … paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient” seemingly changed sign in the course of the last half millennium. In … economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …

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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence

Campos, Nauro F. - 2018

This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...

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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source

Hanousek, Jan - 2008

Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel - 2008

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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Autocratic Transitions and Growth

Nannicini, Tommaso - 2010

In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology – synthetic control methods – to implement data-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...

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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence

Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance transmission channel. At the theoretical level, we develop a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which financial intermediaries make portfolio decisions on behalf of...

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Islamic Banking, Credit and Economic Growth : Some Empirical Evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2016

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies,...

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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth

Irmen, Andreas - 2011

We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...

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