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The volatility curse : revisiting the paradox of plenty

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2009

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...

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Out-of-sample exchange rate predictability with Taylor rule fundamentals

Molodtsova, Tanya; Papell, David H. - In: Journal of international economics 77 (2009) 2, pp. 167-180

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International taxation and multinational firm location decisions

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2008

Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of...

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Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade?

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - In: Journal of international economics 71 (2007) 1, pp. 72-95

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Do natural resources depress income per capita?

Arezki, Rabah; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010

significant negative effect on income per capita, especially in countries with bad rule of law or bad policies, but these results … natural capital) has a significant negative effect on income per capita even after controlling for geography, rule of law and … openness. These results are robust to using alternative measures of institutional quality (expropriation and corruption instead …

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The pungent smell of "red herrings" : subsoil assets, rents, volatility and the resource curse

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2010

exports are no longer significant while the value of subsoil assets has a significant positive effect on growth. But the World …

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Green havens and pollution havens

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2012

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...

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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...

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Introduction to special issue on the global financial crisis

Forbes, Kristin; Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Engel, Charles - In: Journal of international economics 88 (2012) 2, pp. 215-218

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Special issue: the global financial crisis

Forbes, Kristin (contributor); Frankel, Jeffrey (contributor) - 2012

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