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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054321
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111368
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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - CESifo - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757725
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796
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Political Regime Change, Economic Reform and Growth Accelerations
Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2011
Using an improved definition and indicator of growth accelerations, we examine whether political regimes, regime changes, and economic reform are related to growth accelerations. Our results show that economic growth accelerations are preceded by economic reforms. Furthermore, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756913
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Engineering Growth : Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Valencia Caicedo, Felipe - 2021
This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2021
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
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Geography Rules Too! Economic Development and the Geography of Institutions
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This paper sheds a different light on these determinants. We use spatial econometrics to analyse the importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317516
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Urbanization and Economic Development : A Tale of Two Barriers
Bond, Eric W. - 2016
supplemented with quantitative analysis fitting the data from China, to explore the role that reductions in trade and migration … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … toward China's admission to the WTO it does not contribute much to real per capita GDP growth. During this transition process …
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Is There a Nonlinear Relationship between Economic Growth and Inequality? Theory and Lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha - 2015
(economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021416