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

Campos, Nauro F. - 2018

takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple …

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Democracy and Growth : Evidence of a New Measurement

Gründler, Klaus - 2016

very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …

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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 … the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …

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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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Monthly GDP Estimates for Inter-War Britian

Mitchell, James; Solomou, Solomos; Weale, Martin R. - 2021

We derive monthly and quarterly series of UK GDP for the inter-war period from a set of monthly indicators that were constructed by The Economist at the time. The monthly information is complemented with data for quarterly industrial production, allowing us to employ mixed-frequency methods to...

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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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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill : The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2015

Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...

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A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan

Fullerton, Don - 2014

Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects...

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On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change

Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021

Estimates of the marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions require the aggregation of monetised impacts of climate change over people with different incomes and in different jurisdictions. Implicitly or explicitly, such estimates assume a social welfare function and hence a particular...

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