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policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets … destinations, and +0.74 to rich destinations. This relationship between emigration flows and economic growth is highly robust to …
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In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of output. This survey of the literature on Monetary policy and growth shows … that money plays a small role in developing countries and that monetary policy is not a very important influence on growth …
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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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Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … development. The scholarly fields that have been interested in this, entrepreneurship economics and development economics, have … associated with entrepreneurship in development, and by proposing a new synthesis definition of entrepreneurship. …
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This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples...
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mostly pro-cyclical. -- remittances ; financial development ; growth … remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in … particular how local financial sector development influences a country's capacity to take advantage of remittances Using a newly …
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This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil … effects of oil exports are taken into account, the estimates support output growth convergence between Iran and the rest of …, which could be partly due to the relatively underdeveloped nature of Iran's financial markets. -- Growth models ; long run …
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propositions and empirical tests consistent with these trends via a general-equilibrium model of endogenous growth where human … capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the … impact of migration on long-term income growth and distribution, and the net benefits to natives in both destination and …
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