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Then and now: Reflections on two Australian mining booms
Gregory, Robert G. - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280677
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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268236
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Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms
Gregory, Bob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294837
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Trade and Child Labor : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Bandyopadhyay, Sudeshna C. - 2005
This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the goods is a non-traded good. We find that under quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262225
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Inequality and volatility moderation in Russia: evidence from micro-level panel data on consumption and income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova; … - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery. The decrease appears to be driven by falling volatility of transitory income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269374
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269020
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Investor protection and the value of shares: evidence from statutory rules governing variations of shareholders' class rights in Russia
Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
companies in Russia and using the difference-in-difference estimator, the study finds a statistically and economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269433
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Employment protection legislation in Russia: regional enforcement and labour market outcomes
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapelyushnikov, Rostislav; … - 2009
likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274408
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Two to tangle: financial development, political instability and economic growth in Argentina (1896 - 2000)
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G.; Tan, Bin - 2008
.g., cabinet changes) has an indirect (through volatility) impact on growth; (iii) the effect of financial development is positive … and, surprisingly, not via volatility; (iv) the informal instability effects are much larger in the short- than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268984
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The Home Market Shadow
Suedekum, Jens - 2005
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the ?new? theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with only two countries. We present a three -country version of the seminal model by Krugman (1980) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262188