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Rising Income Inequality : Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization?
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2008
We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in … recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited … overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting tendencies: whereas trade globalization is associated with a reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409050
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D Spillovers and Institutions.
Coe, David T. - 2008
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- III. ECONOMETRIC PRELIMINARIES -- IV. "INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS" REVISITED -- V. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATION -- APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS --...
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Knowledge Diffusion Through FDI: Worldwide Firm-Level Evidence
Ahn, JaeBin - 2024
This paper examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on knowledge diffusion by analyzing the effect of firm-level FDI activities on cross-border patent citations. We construct a novel firm-level panel dataset that combines worldwide utility patent and citations data with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015080251
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What Makes Growth Sustained?
Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008
We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...
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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal
Rogoff, Kenneth - 2006
OPENNESS -- IV. PATTERNS OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION -- V. MACROECONOMIC EVIDENCE ON EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION -- VI … GLOBALIZATION -- IX. THRESHOLD EFFECTS IN OUTCOMES OF FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION -- X. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIXES -- References. …
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Do Capital Inflows Spur Technology Diffusion? Evidence from a New Technology Adoption Index
Cugat, Gabriela - 2024
We construct a novel measure of technology adoption, the Embodied Technology Imports Indicator (ETI), available for 181 countries over the period 1970-2020. The ETI measures the technological intensity of imports of each country by leveraging patent data from PATSTAT and product-level trade data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058643
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Foreign Banks in Poor Countries : Theory and Evidence
Tressel, Thierry - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON FOREIGN BANKS IN POOR COUNTRIES -- III. CREAM-SKIMMING EFFECTS OF FOREIGN BANK ENTRY: THEORY -- IV. THE EMPIRICAL TEST: METHODOLOGY AND DATA -- V. RESULTS FROM THE EMPIRICAL TESTS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix I. Welfare...
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From Adoption to Innovation: State-Dependent Technology Policy in Developing Countries
Choi, Jaedo - 2024
Should policymakers in developing countries prioritize foreign technology adoption over domestic innovation? How might this depend on development stages? Using historical technology transfer data from Korea, we find that greater productivity gaps with foreign firms correlate with faster...
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Inequality and Poverty in India: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response
Arbatli Saxegaard, Elif - 2023
poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059249
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Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India
Bhalla, Surjit - 2022
The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for …-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food …
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