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Can population growth contribute to economic development? New evidence from Singapore

Furuoka, Fumitaka; Munir, Qaiser - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3226-3239

This paper chose Singapore as a case study to investigate whether population growth can contribute to economic development. It employed four different single-equation tests for cointegration, namely, 1) ordinary least squares, 2) fully modified ordinary least squares, 3) canonical cointegration...

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Does export dependency hurt economic development? Empirical evidence from Singapore

Furuoka, Fumitaka; Munir, Qaiser - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 204-218

A rapid export growth in East Asia was once identified as a source of the sustainable economic development that the region enjoyed. However, the current global recession has turned exports from an economic virtue to a vice. There is a growing awareness that a heavy reliance on exports has caused...

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Population growth and standard of living: A threshold regression approach

Furuoka, Fumitaka; Munir, Qaiser - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 844-859

This study employs Hansen's (2000) threshold regression analysis to examine the relationship between population growth and per capita GDP in 117 countries. Threshold regression analysis allows controlling the quality of population when examining the relationship between the quantity of...

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Does export dependency hurt economic development? Empirical evidence from Singapore

Furuoka, Fumitaka; Munir, Qaiser - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 204-218

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Entry, exit and productivity empirical results for German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...

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Export entry, export exit, and productivity in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

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Productivity and size of the export market evidence for West and East German plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

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Exports and productivity in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms: a test of Feenstra-Ma

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 415-419

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …

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Are low-productive exporters marginal exporters? Evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 467-481

-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

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