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Productivity effects of trade in natural resources : comparison with mechanisms of technological specialisation

Zarach, Zuzanna; Parteka, Aleksandra - 2022 - This version: April 2022

estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …

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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented solow model

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …

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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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The demographic transition and the emergence of sustained economic growth

Galor, Oded - 2004

The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...

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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory

Galor, Oded - 2009

convergence clubs, and it underlines the persistent effects that variations in pre-historical biogeographical conditions have …

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The nature of conflict

Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015

This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...

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Does euro area membership affect the relation between GDP growth and public debt?

Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2012

We analyse the relationship between the debt to GDP ratio and real per capita GDP growth for the euro area members by distinguishing between periods of sustainable and non-sustainable debt. Thresholds are theory-based and depend on the macroeconomic framework. If the interest rate exceeds...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative economic development : common misconceptions

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in...

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Trade diversity and stages of development : evidence on EU countries

Parteka, Aleksandra - 2013

The paper presents the dynamics of trade diversity with respect to stages of development in the European context. The analysis focuses on EU27 countries observed across the years 1988-2010 and compared to a sample of 136 international economies at all levels of income per capita. We use product...

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