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Autocratic Transitions and Growth
Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2010
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572505
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in International Trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the source country deviates from the reported import value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316439
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Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Inequality : A Panel Data Analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2013
Foreign direct investments (FDI) are an important determinant of economic growth. Countries try to attract mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089164
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The Rule of Law : Measurement and Deep Roots
Gutmann, Jerg - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000219
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Evidence and Implications of Zipf's Law for Integrated Economies
Bowen, Harry P. - 2006
). We demonstrate that each member's shares of total output and of total factors will be equal. This implies that growth in … imply that models characterizing growth of members within an FIE should embody a key assumption: growth process of shares is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779813
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Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood
Dreher, Axel - 2017
We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961083
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Terror Per Capita
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970-2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in terms...
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Chinese Experience with Global 3G Standard-Setting
Whalley, John - 2009
China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764968
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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development
Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan - 2015
What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
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