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The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …
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Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country's growth potential. The government has set an ambitious agenda to transform the economy and to reach middle-income country status by 2030 by scaling up investment in infrastructure and human capital....
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This paper employs a two-country New Keynesian DSGE model to assess the macroeconomic impact of the changes in monetary policy frameworks and the fiscal support in the U.S. and euro area during the pandemic. Moving from a previous target of “below, but close to 2 percent” to a formal...
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In this paper, we estimate the aggregate and sectoral fiscal multipliers of EU Structural Investment (ESI) Funds and of public investment at the EU level. We complement these results with a specific application to the case of Slovenia. We first analyze aggregate data and find large and...
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Solow (1956) has made an essential contribution to the Neo-classical growth approach through the economic convergence …. Convergence could occur either among a group of economies with the same steady states or within regions in which their fundamental … dynamics differ, and thus they exhibit multiple steady states. This study aims to investigate convergence with respect to GDP …
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This study investigates the impact of various economic sectors on household income in Thailand. It is conducted in light of the substantial "digital wallet" scheme initiated by the Thai government, with the goal of providing empirical evidence and suggesting alternative policies for regional...
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The global boom in hydrocarbon, metal and mineral prices since the year 2000 created huge economic rents - rents which, once invested, were widely expected to promote productivity growth in other parts of the booming economies, creating a lasting legacy of the boom years. This paper asks whether...
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is convergence of the cluster patterns over time. A number of different clusters appear and these change over time as the … labour productivity. The paper concludes that in the last decade the convergence of countries sharing the euro has been … divergences from pre-existing integration. Country convergence needs to be understood as a dynamic and multivariate concept. This …
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The cross-country convergence hypothesis is one of the central topics of long-run macroeconomics. This paper revisits … beta convergence is first documented. Next, the paper incorporates some recent developments from the unsupervised machine … learning literature to evaluate the existence of local convergence. In particular, the application of a distribution …
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Economic integration and globalization are expected to promote economic growth and convergence. This article offers a … convergence literature aims to establish whether catching-up processes have been successful. This article verifies the existence … become fewer and larger. However, growth path divergences persist and suggest a cluster-based convergence. Integration …
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