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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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Locating economic concentration

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2004

We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is also remarkably regular regarding its size...

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Trade policy and the household distribution of income

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004

We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...

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Finance and growth : a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature

Eschenbach, Felix - 2004

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on links between domestic financial development and economic growth. It starts with the pioneers in this field and then classifies two main schools favouring liberal financial regimes. First McKinnon and Shaw advocated financial...

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Commercial policy uncertainty, the expected cost of protection, and market access

Francois, Joseph F.; Martin, Will - 1998 - Rev.

Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines likeOECD industrial tariff bindings negotiated under GATT since 1947 and new Uruguay Roundbindings on agricultural and services trade and on developing country industrial tariffs, constrain...

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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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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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Accounting noise and the pricing of cocos

Derksen, Mike; Spreij, Peter; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2018

Contingent Convertible bonds (CoCos) are debt instruments that convert into equity or are written down in times of distress. Existing pricing models assume conversion triggers based on market prices and on the assumption that markets can always observe all relevant firm information. But all...

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Unilateralism in a multilateral world

Ethier, Wilfred - 2001

it has because the world is multilateral (the insurancetriangle); to be useful unilateralism requires a multilateral …

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Global credit risk : world, country and industry factors

Schwaab, Bernd; Koopman, Siem Jan; Lucas, André - 2015

area sovereign debt crises. We find that macro and default-specific world factors are a primary source of default …

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