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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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Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2002
evidence that trade has the detrimental effect on the environment that the race-to-the-bottom theory would lead one to expect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469508
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Consumption Risk and International Asset Returns : Some Empirical Evidence
Cumby, Robert E. - 1987
The paper examines if real stock returns in four countries are consistent with consumption-based models of international asset pricing. The paper finds that ex-ante real stock returns exhibit statistically significant fluctuations over time and that these fluctuations cannot be explained by...
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Market structure in services and market access in goods
Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003023146
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Forecasting exchange rates with a large Bayesian VAR
Carriero, Andrea; Kapetanios, George; Marcellino, … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774002
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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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Policies to Foster Human Capital
Heckman, James J. - 1999
This paper considers the sources of skill formation in a modern economy and emphasizes the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills in producing economic and social success and the importance of both formal academic institutions and families and firms as sources of learning. Skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471495
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An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2009
This paper analyzes a detailed plan to set quantitative national limits on emissions of greenhouse gases, following along the lines of the Kyoto Protocol. It is designed to fill in the most serious gaps: the absence of targets extending as far as 2100, the absence of participation by the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463771
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469756
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The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions)
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002
We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … hosted 11% of the world's poor in 1960. It hosted 66% of them in 1998. We estimate nine indexes of income inequality implied … by our world distribution of income. All of them show substantial reductions in global income inequality during the 1980s …
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