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European integration and employment : a new role for active policies?
Gatti, Donatella - 2002
This paper theoretically investigates the impact of European integration on employment by developing a new-keynesian model where fiscal policy effectively reduces firms' market power. Stronger product market competition is shown to reduce the marginal ability of governments to improve employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411427
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Integrated macroeconomic production function for open economies : a new Schumpeterian Solow model for globalization
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2016
analysis in the context of economic globalization and the demand for labor as well as long run international output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452235
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Does the liberalization of trade advance gender equality in schooling and health?
Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2006
status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003392246
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Financial globalization and economic policies
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - 2009
process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003816538
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The social impact of globalization in the developing countries
Lee, Eddy (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2006
In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253463
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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832281
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942325
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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488418
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Money can't buy love but can it buy peace? : evidence from the EU programme for peace and reconciliation
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403908
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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493846