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Resource-richness and economic growth in contemporary U.S.
Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017
Between 1997 and 2014, US corn, soybean and cotton production almost fully converted to genetically modified crops. Starting around 2007, improved tight oil and shale gas technologies turned the declining US fossil fuel production into a booming industry. We study the effects of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761618
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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007
How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world will be characterized for the coming decades by aging populations. Changes in the age distribution of a population are an important determinant of economic performance as they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372996
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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022
This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects attitudes toward democracy and policy preferences. The empirical analysis disentangles age effects from cohort effects and separates their role from economic and political factors that shape political preferences in a given period, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803695
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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022 - Original version: January 2022, this version: September 2022
This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013366771
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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015. We then juxtapose the estimates with predicted shifts in population age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332127
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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928775
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On the conditional effects of IMF program participation on output growth
Binder, Michael; Bluhm, Marcel - 2010
-dependent panel data model accounting in particular for program participation selection and the potential conditionality of the output … ; panel sample selection models ; conditional pooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696785
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A panel data investigation of real exchange rate misalignment and growth
MacDonald, Ronald; Vieira, Flavio Vilela - 2010
using time series data from 1980 to 2004. We first estimate a panel data model (using fixed and random effects) for the real … of real exchange rate misalignment using panel cointegration methods. The variables used in our real exchange rate models …-step System GMM panel growth models indicate that the coefficients for real exchange rate misalignment are positive for different …
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Testing uncovered interest rate parity using LIBOR
Omer, Muhammad; Haan, Jakob de; Scholtens, Bert - 2012
markets, LIBOR markets have minimal frictions which could lead to rejecting UIP. Using panel unit root test suggested by Palm … to the long-run equilibrium is proportional to the maturity of the underlying instrument. -- UIP ; LIBOR ; panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570031
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Employment growth, inflation and output growth : was Phillips right? ; evidence from a dynamic panel
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Škare, Marinko - 2011
dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009162091