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A growing body of evidence suggests that uncertainty is counter cyclical, rising sharply in recessions and falling in booms. But what is the causal relationship between uncertainty and growth? To identify this we construct cross country panel data on stock market levels and volatility as proxies...

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The role of goods-trade networks for services-trade volume

Egger, Peter; Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 40 (2017) 3, pp. 532-543

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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times

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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

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What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information increases (the "localist"...

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Newer Need Not be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016

Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …

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The classical approach to convergence analysis

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Changing returns to education in Portugal during the 1980s and early 1990s : OLS and quantile regression estimators

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Multiple versus single banking relationships

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