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Tourism Specialization and Economic Development
Piotrowski, John M. - 2009
UNESCO World Heritage List. We find that there is a positive relationship between the extent of tourism specialization and …The present paper investigates whether tourism specialization is a viable strategy for development. We estimate … standard growth equations augmented with a variable measuring tourism specialization using instrumental variables techniques …
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Caribbean growth in an international perspective : the role of tourism and size
Thacker, Nita; Acevedo, Sebastian; Perrelli, Roberto - 2012
is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659894
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Tax composition and growth : a broad cross-country perspective
Acosta-Ormaechea, Santiago; Yoo, Jiae - 2012
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
Prasad, Eswar - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677369
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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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An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse
Alichi, Ali - 2009
The paper provides an alternative explanation for the ""resource curse"" based on the income effect resulting from high government current spending in resource rich economies. Using a simple life cycle framework, we show that private investment in the non-resource sector is adversely affected if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677783
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Development Aid and Economic Growth
Reddy, Sanjay - 2009
We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...
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Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the MAMS Model
Fund, International Monetary - 2009
within the World Bank's MAMS model, which is a multisectoral real computable general equilibrium model that incorporates the …
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Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter.
Becker, Törbjörn I - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. MOTIVATION AND RELATED STUDIES -- II. OUTPUT DROPS -- III. SHOCKS -- IV. MULTIVARIATE PROBIT ANALYSIS -- V. ROBUSTNESS AND EXTENSIONS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX TABLES AND FIGURES -- APPENDIX I. HODRICK-PRESCOTT-FILTER BASED DEFINITION OF EVENTS -- APPENDIX II. KERNEL...
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A Multi-Industry Model of Growth with Financing Constraints
Ilyina, Anna; Samaniego, Roberto M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper develops a multi-industry growth model in which firms require external funds to conduct productivity-enhancing R&D. The cost of research is industry-specific. The tightness of financing constraints depends on the level of financial development and on industry characteristics. Over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528634