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The relationship between aid and economic growth of developing countries : does institutional quality and economic freedom matter?
Abate, Chala Amante - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
quality and economic freedom matters in aid–growth relationship. To this base, a panel data covering the period 2002-2019 was … relationship between foreign aid and economic growth, and dynamic panel threshold regression is utilized to uncover the mediating … result from dynamic panel threshold regression shows that the effect of aid on economic growth is negative when arithmetic …
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Foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in developing countries : a dynamic panel data causality analysis
Mahembe, Edmore; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17
countries for the period 1981–2013. Taking advantage of the recently developed dynamic panel data estimation techniques, the … paper tests for both panel unit roots and cointegration before employing the panel vector error-correction model (VECM …
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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...
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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020
We investigate how protectionist policies influence economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We employ the...
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The contribution of international trade to economic growth through human capital accumulation : evidence from nine Asian countries
Haq, Mirajul; Luqman, Muhammad - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-13
impact of international trade on the accumulation of human capital. The empirical analysis estimates dynamic panel growth …
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How does quality of institutions affect the impact of trade openness on economic growth of Ghana?
Duodu, Emmanuel; Baidoo, Samuel Tawiah - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
Developing countries, of which Ghana is no exception have actively engaged in trade openness after independence, yet, their economic growth remains low and this calls for urgent attention to address the situation. This study therefore examines the impact of trade openness on economic growth of...
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Revisiting stock market development and economic growth nexus : the moderating role of foreign capital inflows and exchange rates
Mohammad Enamul Hoque; Jakob, Noor Azuddin - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17
This study re-examines the stock market development and economic growth nexus. Also, examine the moderating role of foreign capital inflows and exchange rate on the relationship between stock market development and economic growth of Malaysia during 1981–2016. This study applies Granger test,...
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Revisiting stock market development and economic growth nexus : the moderating role of foreign capital inflows and exchange rates
Mohammad Enamul Hoque; Jakob, Noor Azuddin - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-17
This study re-examines the stock market development and economic growth nexus. Also, examine the moderating role of foreign capital inflows and exchange rate on the relationship between stock market development and economic growth of Malaysia during 1981–2016. This study applies Granger test,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881225
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Global innovation contests
Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023
This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in...
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