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countries have contributed to growth in their exports of differentiated goods at the intensive margin; they have not affected … the probability of recording new flows. Growth in emerging countries' exports at the extensive margin of trade has been …
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This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil … steadily over the past three decades, the theory suggests that the effect of oil income on the economy’s steady state growth …
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This paper examines several US monthly financial time series data using fractional integration and cointegration … exploiting recent developments in fractional cointegration allows to investigate in greater depth the relationships between …
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In this paper we use fractional integration techniques to examine the degree of integration of four US stock market indices, namely the Standard and Poor, Dow Jones, Nasdaq and NYSE, at a daily frequency from January 2005 till December 2009. We analyse the weekly structure of the series and...
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maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters in the model, we use an expectation maximization algorithm based on the state …
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(possibly unwarranted) homogeneity and proportionality restrictions are not imposed, and trivariate cointegration (stage …
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In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments … we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the … with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa …
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Government is often considered the safe sector of an open economy that provides households with insurance against external risk exposure. Among highly integrated economies, however, households should be able to exploit common financial markets to insure themselves. In this paper we examine the...
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Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...
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firm growth explains some recent empirical regularities on firm and labor market dynamics. Fitting the model to capture key …
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