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Does financial integration spur economic growth? : New evidence from the first era of financial globalization
Schularick, Moritz (contributor);  … - 2006
Does international financial integration boost economic growth? The question has been discussed controversially for a long time. As of yet, robust evidence for a positive impact is lacking (Edison et al., 2002). However, there is substantial narrative evidence from economic history that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301349
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
Jacks, David S. - 2008
What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464507
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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
Broda, Christian - 2006
in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466154
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Political Limits to Globalization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to … suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to globalization and its future developments may be militarist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462958
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Fooling Ourselves : Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate
Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2004
This paper evaluates how much of the economics profession has evaluated the evidence on the relationship between international trade and economic growth. The paper highlights the basic approaches to the trade and growth question that the literature has adopted. The case is made that more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468449
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The Rise of Middle Kingdoms : Emerging Economies in Global Trade
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2012
In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade...
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The Role of Extensive and Intensive Margins and Export Growth
Besedes, Tibor - 2007
We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export margins. Our empirical approach is motivated by an extension to the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms in which exporters are subject to a one-time sunk cost and also a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465011
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Economic globalisation and Africa's quest for greener and more inclusive growth : the missing link
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable...
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Financial integration, globalization, and real activity
De Nicolò, Gianni; Juvenal, Luciana - 2012
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: (a) financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; (c) both advances in financial integration and globalization are … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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