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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice - 2009

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

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Trust, Values and False Consensus

Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012

Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...

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Foreign Capital and Economic Growth

Prasad, Eswar S.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Subramanian, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...

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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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Foreign Capital and Economic Growth

Prasad, Eswar S.; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positive correlation between current...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316680

Southern African Economic Integration : Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

Warin, Thierry - 2009

This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...

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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

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Productivity Dynamics : The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas - 2019

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...

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