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Structural reforms and income inequality : who benefits from market-oriented reforms?
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154916
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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451098
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Ageing and productivity growth : are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?
Werding, Martin (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630859
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
liberalizations correspond to the event of becoming a democracy. Using a difference-indifference estimation, we ask what are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450308
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On the capital structure of foreign subsidiaries : evidence from a panel data quantile regression model
Miniaci, Raffaele; Panteghini, Paolo - 2021
estimation of unconditional quantile partial effects in a model with correlated random effects. The results show that the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514927
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Common correlated effects estimation of heterogeneous dynamic panel quantile regression models
Harding, Matthew C.; Lamarche, Carlos; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2018
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a heterogeneous panel model with lagged dependent variables and … Pesaran (2015) and demonstrates that the extension to the estimation of dynamic quantile regression models is feasible under … the time series dimension of the panel is large. We present an application to the evaluation of Time-of-Use pricing using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898624
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Determinants of the degree of fiscal sustainability
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Coelho, José Carlos - 2023
We assess the link between fiscal sustainability coefficients, namely the responses of the primary government balance and the global government balance to the debt-to-GDP ratio, and the response of government revenues to government expenditures. For 22 OECD developed countries we use annual data...
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Democracy and development : the devil in the details
Persson, Torsten (contributor);  … - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301122
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Reform, uncertainty and spillovers : a gravity model approach
Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503832
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Productivity differences in OECD countries
Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2000
This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …. Our empirical analysis counts with three distinctive features. First, it allows all the coefficients in the panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781595