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estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks. …
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How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...
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Recent trade negotiations, both at the regional and multilateral level, have seen a resurgence of the issue of trade and labour standards. As the world economy becomes increasingly globalised and the volume of world trade flows keeps increasing between the North and the South, it is very likely...
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and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence … a single cointegrating vector between financial development and growth and of causality going from financial development … to economic growth. We find little evidence of reverse causation as well as bi-directional causality. We interpret this …
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We argue that, under certain conditions, firms consider exports as a substitute for domestic demand. Our econometric …
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We argue that, under certain conditions described by a sunk cost hysteresis model, firms consider exports as a … export market and vice versa takes place in a smooth manner. Areas of weak reaction of exports to changes in domestic demand …
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China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the …
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I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...
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The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced...
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-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth … of countries that experienced a transition to autocracy with the growth of a convex combination of similar countries that … ; democracy ; growth ; synthetic control methods …
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