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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801809
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430076
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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007
This paper studies the joint effect of economic and political inequalities on redistributive taxation and institutional quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278272
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A matrix exponential spatial specification approach to panel data models
Figueiredo, Calebe; Silva, Alan Ricardo da - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 49 (2015) 1, pp. 115-129
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318299
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A race to the bottom in labour standards? : an empirical investigation
Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011 - This Draft: November 2011
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732552
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Tax policy, foreign direct investment and spillover effects
Boly, Amadou; Coulibaly, Seydou; Kéré, Eric Nazindigouba - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990555
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Generalized spatial autocorrelation in a panel-probit model with an application to exporting in China
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 55 (2018) 1, pp. 193-211
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Taxation, foreign direct investment and spillover effects in the mining sector
Coulibaly, Seydou; Camara, Abdramane - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301448
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Inter-state dynamics of invention activities, 1930 - 2000
Co, Catherine Y.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
1930 to 2000 using a discrete-state Markov chain. We test for and find evidence in favor of the (knowledge) convergence … states in the middle of the cross-sectional distribution and the rate of convergence to the limiting distribution is "slow." …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271973
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Price Level Convergence Among United States Cities: Lessons for the European Central Bank
Cecchetti, Stephen; Mark, Nelson C.; Sonora, Robert - 1998
estimate the half life of convergence to be approximately 9 years. The following hypotheses are investigated as explanations … for the slow convergence: (i) Arbitrage impediments induced by transportation costs, and (ii) and the inclusion of … upper bound on convergence rates that participants in European Monetary Union may experience. …
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