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How important are institutions for growth in transition countries?

Moers, Luc - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation … performance in transition countries than institutionsper se. This suggests that macroeconomic stabilization and peace should be … the main policypriorities in transition, closely followed by institution building. …

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

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Total factor productivity and the Mongolian transition

Chessa, Antonio G.; Schouwstra, Marije C. - 2005

country. In many transition economies TFP is seen to have been negative the last decade of the plan economy and starts … increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years of transition. Many authors conclude that this is a gain in efficiency …

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Structural differences in economic growth

Basturk, Nalan; Paap, Richard; Dijk, Dick van - 2008

This paper addresses heterogeneity in determinants of economic growth in a data-driven way. Instead of defining groups of countries with different growth characteristics a priori, based on, for example, geographical location, we use a finite mixture panel model and endogenous clustering to...

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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context

Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999

The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...

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Skill intensity in foreign trade and economic growth

Wörz, Julia - 2004

This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...

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Space and growth

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...

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The limiting distribution of production in integrated economies : evidence from US states and EU countries

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2006

We show that in a fully integrated economy, in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each member’s share of total output will equal its shares of total stocks of productive factors (i.e., physical and human capital). We label this result the equal-share relationship. This...

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Variable selection and functional form uncertainty in cross-country growth regressions

Salimans, Tim - 2011

Regression analyses of cross-country economic growth data are complicated by two main forms of model uncertainty: the uncertainty in selecting explanatory variables and the uncertainty in specifying the functional form of the regression function. Most discussions in the literature address these...

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Total factor productivity and the Mongolian transition

Chessa, Antonio G.; Schouwstra, Marije C. - 2005

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