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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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Structural reforms and the exchange rate regime : a panel analysis for the world versus OECD countries

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Herz, Bernhard (contributor); … - 2005

We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between on the one side the adoption of an exchange rate...

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Unemployment and productivity growth : an empirical analysis within the augmented Solow model

Bräuninger, Michael; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …

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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...

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The inequality-growth plateau

Henderson, Daniel J.; Qian, Junhui; Wang, Le - 2015

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require …

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Terrorism and employment : evidence from successful and failed terror attacks

Brodeur, Abel - 2015

This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study

Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability … relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings … data for the 1980-2009 period. We conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse …

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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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The impact of inflation targeting on inflation and growth: how robust is the evidence?

Junankar, Pramod N.; Wong, Chun Yee - 2020

This paper evaluates the success of Inflation Targeting on inflation and growth on a large panel data set of both … the process by which inflation targeting is hypothesised to influence inflation and growth, Section 3 surveys this … policy does not necessarily help to reduce inflation and certainly does not stimulate economic growth. …

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Climatic roots of loss aversion

Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018

This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...

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