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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...

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International Trade and Per Capita Income Convergence : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis

Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1998

In this paper I analyze whether international trade contributes to per capita income convergence across countries. The analysis focuses on four important post-1945 multilateral trade liberalizations. To identify trade's effect on income dispersion, in each case I use a difference-in-differences'...

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Per Capita Income Convergence and the Role of International Trade

Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1997

reason might be perspective. Most convergence papers frame the analysis in a `Solow world' in which countries exist … independent of one another. But most international trade economists have a very different perspective of a world in which … theory. The key point here is that countries trading is not sufficient proof that trade helps cause per capita income …

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Carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth : an assessment based on production and consumption emission inventories

Fernández-Amador, Octavio; Francois, Joseph F.; … - 2017

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Threshold and interaction effects in the openness-productivity growth relationship : the role of institutions and natural barriers

Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; Kneller, Richard; … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Trade, imitative ability and intellectual property rights

Falvey, Rodney E. (contributor); … - 2006

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How bad is antidumping? : evidence from panel data

Egger, Peter (contributor); Nelson, Douglas R. (contributor) - 2007

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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Shining a Light on Purchasing Power Parities

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2018

study of PPP-adjusted estimates of GDP around the world between 1992 and 2010. First, we find that while market exchange … optimal. Using data from the Penn World Tables, we find that, indeed, it is optimal to only use the latest price data, and …

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Social Security and Democracy

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2002

Many political economic theories use and emphasize the process of voting in their explanation of the growth of Social Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social Security program size or design? Using some new...

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