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Industrial policy and the great divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
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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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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfill them unclear. This leaves room for partly particularly negative interpretations, such as equating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546886
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Bringing the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations to conclusion
Whalley, John (contributor); Walsh, Sean (contributor) - 2008
(China, India, Russia, Brazil) on the other. -- Climate change ; global negotiation …
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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002
&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this …
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Do China and Russia undermine US sanctions? : evidence from DiD and event study estimation
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022
panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries' trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … sanctions. We find no evidence for systematic sanction busting. Russia does not change its trade patterns with sanctioned …
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The global sanctions data base - release 3 : Covid-19, Russia and multilateral sanctions
Syropoulos, Constantinos; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - 2022
period of coverage from 1950-2019 to 1950-2022, which includes two special periods - COVID-19 and the war between Russia and … trade. We also obtain estimates of the effects on trade of the 2014 sanctions on Russia, …
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Economic knock-on effects of Russia's geopolitical risk on advanced economies : a global VAR approach
Blagov, Boris; Dirks, Maximilian W.; Funke, Michael - 2024
Using Russia as a case study and a global VAR model as a methodological tool, we analyze how heightened geopolitical … response functions in response to the skyrocketing Russian geo-political risk shock after Russia's invasion of Ukraine revealed …
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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German
Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2019
This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE profitability...
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