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Agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment: quasi-experimental evidence from Romania

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Voicu, Ioan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

How important are agglomeration economies for the location of foreign manufacturing plants? We investigate this question by combining innovations from previous studies and by taking advantage of a quasi-experimental setting: the political and economic transition in Romania. The recent, sudden...

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A simple model of the transformational recession under a limited mobility constraint

Gomulka, Stanislaw; Lane, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper considers the impact on sectoral outputs and employments of rapid and large changes in relative prices, such as those which occurred in transition economies during the 1990s. A simple general equilibrium model is developed in which price changes are induced by a tax reform and...

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Complaints and inequality

Cowell, Frank; Ebert, Udo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …

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The subjective approach to the measurement of income inequality

Amiel, Yoram - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …

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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation

Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …

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Empirics for growth and distribution

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...

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Inequality: measurement

Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …

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A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...

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Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Davidovitz, Leima; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...

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Measuring inequality by counting 'complaints': theory and empirics

Devooght, Kurt - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based …

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