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What Do Business Climate Indexes Teach Us About State Policy and Economic Growth?

Kolko, Jed - 2011

State business climate indexes capture state policies that might affect economic growth. State rankings in these indexes vary wildly, raising questions about what the indexes measure and which policies are important for growth. Indexes focused on productivity do not predict economic growth,...

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On the Road : Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical cities....

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Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800

Mancall, Peter C.; Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021

For the past generation scholars have emphasized that the Lower South was one of the most economically successful regions of British mainland North America, and perhaps the most successful. Planters, the primary economic actors, made extensive use of slave labor and created a successful...

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Growth in Regions

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2015

convergence within and across countries. Regional growth is shaped by similar factors as national growth, such as geography and … human capital. Regional convergence is about 2.5% per year, not more than 1% per year faster than convergence between … countries. Regional convergence is faster in richer countries, and countries with better capital markets. A calibration of a …

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Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities

Glaeser, Edward L.; Scheinkman, José; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

We examine the relationship between urban characteristics in 1960 and urban growth (income and population) between 1960 and 1990. Our major findings are that income and population growth move together and both types of growth are (1) positively related to initial schooling, (2) negatively...

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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets

Mitchener, Kris James - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and...

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The Rise of American Ingenuity : Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2017

We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking historical U.S. patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching inventors to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a causal relationship between patented inventions and...

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Solow and the States : Capital Accumulation, Productivity and Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021

National, state, and local policy makers have increasingly focused their attention on policies toward economic growth, especially efforts to raise the rate of investment. Recent studies of economic growth have raised a debate over the role played by the investment rate in the long-run...

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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces

Helliwell, John F. - 2022

The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the United States. The ethnic categories people choose to describe themselves are as important as regional differences, but much less important than education, in explaining...

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The impact of capital flows from commercial banks and FDI on sustainable economic growth in ASEAN countries

Long Thanh Tran - In: Contemporary economics 16 (2022) 3, pp. 361-373

The paper is aimed at assessing the impact of capital flows from commercial banks and FDI on sustainable economic growth in ASEAN countries. The study has conducted quantitative secondary analysis on data collected from 1980 to 2018 for Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. Descriptive statistics,...

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