Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 550
Cover Image
Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2010
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314284
Cover Image
How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516481
Cover Image
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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296317
Cover Image
An empirical growth model for major oil exporters
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012
This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focuses on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535794
Cover Image
Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of thousands of years ago, contributed to the differential formation of pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
Cover Image
Growth and poverty in Africa : shifting fortunes and new perspectives
Shimeles, Abebe - 2014
Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted … Africa and addresses whether or not previously held belief that Africa is too poor to grow is relevant today. The findings … employment, particularly to increase in employment in the industrial sector, than to increase in mean income. In Africa the co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463409
Cover Image
Growth, history, or institutions? : what explains state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic … institutions are accounted for. -- State fragility ; Africa ; institutions ; colonial history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942306
Cover Image
Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007836
Cover Image
Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153586
Cover Image
Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide : recent longitudinal evidence
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our longitudinal data consists of 103 countries covering the period 1992-2005. We find that democracies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534885