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Industrial policy and the great divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023

, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …

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Financial development and income inequality

Jauch, Sebastian; Watzka, Sebastian - 2011

We analyze the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of 138 developed and developing countries over the years 1960 to 2008. Using credit-to-GDP as measure of financial development, our results reject theoretical models predicting a negative...

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Labor unions, globalization, and mercantilism

Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - 2009

We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model … bargaining above a given minimum wage promotes mercantilist behavior of developed countries. -- globalization : product cycle …

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Cross-border patenting, globalization, and development

LaBelle, Jesse; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023

We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and … strong, positive impact of policy and globalization on cross-border patent flows, especially from North to South. A … gaining more than North post-2000, thus lowering real income inequality in the world. …

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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...

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A counterfactual economic analysis of Covid-19 using a threshold augmented multi-country model

Chudik, Alexander; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2020

observations. Our results show that the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a significant fall in world output that is most likely long …

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Economic knock-on effects of Russia's geopolitical risk on advanced economies : a global VAR approach

Blagov, Boris; Dirks, Maximilian; Funke, Michael - 2024

Using Russia as a case study and a global VAR model as a methodological tool, we analyze how heightened geopolitical risk shocks propagate across advanced economies and quantify the economic effects of these events. The global VAR impulse response functions in response to the skyrocketing...

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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...

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A touch of sophistication : FDI and unit values of exports

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2009

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated" products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting...

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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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