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Innovation and inequality in a small world

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2017

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth and R&D-driven technological progress in which countries are … countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world …. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including …

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Growth and inequality : a meta-analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...

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A new explanatory model for policy analysis and evaluation

Schouwstra, Marije; Ellman, Michael - 2006

policy makers adhere, or they may be ‘real world’ factors such as badly-defined performance indicators or cyclical economic …

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Untangling real gravity

Klaassen, Franc; Teulings, Rutger - 2017

all variables proposed by theory, despite a broad set of fixed effects (FE). We find that both REERs are important and … multilateral resistances. Untangling normalization helps to get a better view of what is still unexplained by theory. …

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Preferential trade arrangements and the pattern of production and trade when inputs are differentiated

Francois, Joseph F. - 2005

This paper is concerned with rules of origin when intermediate goods aredifferentiated. An analytical model emphasizes trade patterns and the relativeimportance of trade in intermediates given trade preferences. Econometric evidencebased on intra-OECD trade in motor vehicles and motor vehicle...

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The political economy of financial fragility

Feijen, Erik; Perotti, Enrico - 2005

While financial liberalization has in general favorable effects, reforms in countries with poor regulation is often followed by financial crises. We explain this variation as the outcome of lobbying interests capturing the reform process. Even after liberalization, market investors must rely on...

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The trade-off between foreign direct investments and exports : the role of multiple dimensions of distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2009

Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between …

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Economic growth and the volatility of foreign aid

Chervin, Michal; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009

Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that...

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On the distance dependence of the price elasticity of telecommunications demand : meta-analysis, and alternative theoretical backgrounds

Ouwersloot, Hans; Rietveld, Piet - 1997

functions in conjunction with the dependence of price on distance, and consider whether spatial interaction theory can provide … this explanation is not unequivocal. On the other hand we show that incorporating spatial interaction theory elements in a …

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Forecasting in a changing world : from the great recession to the COVID-19 pandemic

Artemova, Mariia; Blasques, Francisco; Koopman, Siem Jan; … - 2021

We develop a new targeted maximum likelihood estimation method that provides improved forecasting for misspecified linear autoregressive models. The method weighs data points in the observed sample and is useful in the presence of data generating processes featuring structural breaks, complex...

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