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Assessing Protectionism and Subsidies in Agriculture : A Gravity Approach
Paiva, Claudio - 2014
support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …
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Growth and Convergence in a Two-Region Model : The Hypothetical Case of Korean Unification
Funke, Michael - 2007
The paper discusses the impact and implications of Korean unification by setting up a two-region endogenous growth model. The numerical solutions are based on the formal analytical model, and have been calibrated so that they reflect the observed features of the North and South Korean economies....
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From Firm-Level Imports to Aggregate Productivity : Evidence from Korean Manufacturing Firms Data
Ahn, JaeBin - 2016
Using the Korean manufacturing firm-level data, this paper confirms that three stylized facts on importing hold in Korea: the ratio of imported inputs in total inputs tends to be procyclical; the use of imported inputs increases productivity; and larger firms are more likely to use imported...
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Regional Disparities, Growth, and Inclusiveness
Spatafora, Nicola; Floerkemeier, Holger; Venables, … - 2021
We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. We first set out some key facts, and provide a conceptual framework to help analyze whether such disparities are efficient, or instead reflect market and/or policy failures. We examine whether policy attempts to reduce...
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Regional Disparities in Europe
Balakrishnan, Ravi; Ebeke, Christian; Firat, Melih; … - 2022
While the level of disparities across regions in 10 advanced European economies studied in this paper mostly reflects productivity gaps, the increase since the Great Recession has resulted from diverging unemployment rates. Following the pandemic, this could be further exacerbated given...
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Regional Disparities and Fiscal Federalism in Russia
Dynnikova, Oksana; Kyobe, Annette J.; Slavov, Slavi - 2022
This paper examines how regional disparities have evolved in Russia and how Russia’s system of intergovernmental fiscal relations is managing these disparities. Regional disparities have fallen over the past two decades but remain relatively high. Socioeconomic outcomes remain worse in lagging...
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Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
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The Agricultural Exodus in the Philippines : Are Wage Differentials Driving the Process?
Cerutti, Eugenio; Li, Yiliang - 2022
Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …
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What Caused the Global Financial Crisis? Evidence on the Drivers of Financial Imbalances 1999-2007
Nier, Erlend W. - 2011
This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
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The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Transmission Under Capital Inflows : Evidence from Asia
Jain-Chandra, Sonali - 2012
The effectiveness of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in open economies could be impaired if interest rates are driven primarily by global factors, especially during periods of large capital inflows. The main objective of this paper is to assess whether this is true for emerging Asia's...
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