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turn looks for engines of sustained growth. We use a micro-founded macroeconomic model calibrated to Greece. Our …
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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the …
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This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...
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While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …
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The gains in life expectancy are expected to double the dependency ratio and increase population by 10% in Switzerland until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model with five margins of labor supply: labor market...
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This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies,...
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between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … (economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …
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We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
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