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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development : Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers
Bloom, David E. - 2020
Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...
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The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions
Macunovich, Diane - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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Regional Convergence in Russia : Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2020
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our...
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2021
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
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Unemployment and Productivity Growth : An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Pannenberg, Markus; Bräuninger, Michael - 2021
Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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Secular Satiation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017
will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a situation. In contrast, the decentralized equilibrium may involve long run …. In the latter equilibrium, capital and the number of varieties are larger than in the former, while consumption of each …, the satiated equilibrium generically survives. For some parameter values, its growth rate is positive while labor supply …
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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
level from a theoretical point of view. Our main contribution is to set up a general equilibrium model which allows us to …
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The Recovery from the Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion
Shambaugh, Jay; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
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