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Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2008
The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's location however not only determines its absolute geography, it also pins down its relative position on the globe vis-à-vis other countries. This paper assesses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803503
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Uncertainty and hyperinflation : European inflation dynamics after World War I
López, José A.; Mitchener, Kris - 2018
Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855599
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Firms and economic performance : a view from trade
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2019
We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries. market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955762
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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019
whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi … data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that AGOA boosted African apparel exports and the … GSP expansion increased African exports of other eligible products. While the marginal impacts on African apparel exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024617
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450834
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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747456
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The farmer, the blue-collar, and the monk : understanding economic development through saturations of demands and non-homothetic productivity gains
Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André; Le Bris, David - 2018 - This draft: April 9, 2018
the relative evolutions of prices across sectors. Reasonable calibration generates results quantitatively close to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819388
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Globally engaged firms in the Covid-19 crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level
Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 2017
Nighttime lights are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity and economic development in subnational spatial units. However, so far, our understanding of what nighttime lights capture is limited. We construct local indicators of household wealth, education and...
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Spatial diffusion of economic shocks in networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
mineral mines and exogenous time variation in world mineral prices. Our results show that road and ethnic connectivity are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825329