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Egger, Peter H. - 2016

into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect … productivity growth, and endogenous changes in expenditures shares on manufacturing goods and services. We quantify the importance … accumulation and trade costs have been the most important drivers of trade in the sample at hand, whereas productivity growth and …

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Robust Implementation of a Parsimonious Dynamic Factor Model to Nowcast GDP

Duarte, Pablo - 2014

Quarterly GDP figures usually are published with a delay of some weeks. A common way to generate GDP series of higher frequency, i.e. to nowcast GDP, is to use available indicators to calculate a single index by means of a common factor derived from a dynamic factor model (DFM). This paper deals...

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Trends and Cycles in Macro Series : The Case of US Real GDP

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2018

In this paper we propose a new modelling framework for the analysis of macro series that includes both stochastic trends and stochastic cycles in addition to deterministic terms such as linear and non-linear trends. We examine four US macro series, namely annual and quarterly real GDP and GDP...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability : A Panel Data Analysis

Farhani, Sahbi - 2014

African (MENA) countries over the period 1990-2010 using panel data methods. For the first specification, namely EKC, we show …

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Does the Euro-Zone Diverge? A Stress Indicator for Analyzing Trends and Cycles in Real GDP and Inflation

Flaig, Gebhard; Wollmershaeuser, Timo - 2021

This paper presents a stress indicator for the eurozone that summarizes developments of trends and cycles in real GDP and inflation in the member countries. Stress in a country is defined as the difference between the country's actual short-term interest rate and the interest rate that would...

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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...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Czernich, Nina - 2012

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel …

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GDP Growth, Private Debt and Monetary Policy

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2017

Economic research has considered Private Debt a determinant of GDP growth for years. By keeping this perspective, the objective of this work is to understand how much of the GDP response to a monetary shock is due to the variation of private debt. This is the marginal contribution of private...

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey - 2011

The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear...

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