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I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Jacobian externalities stemmed from different technological sectors for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the development of new patents, is a key factor behind the...
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Focused on the efficiency of the Russian innovation-fostering policy, the research is based on an empirical analysis of how policy instruments impact firms' behavior. The data is obtained from two surveys of more than 600 Russian industrial companies in 2011-2012. The analysis shows that tax...
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Do institutions spatially affect growth? By employing a neoclassical growth model with institutional controls and augmenting the model with a formal spatial framework, this study finds evidence that institutions has spatial spillover effect on economic growth based on a panel observation from 58...
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being reflected through the changes which are occurring in the economic structure of an economy as well as in the structure … countries in the fast changing global economy. …
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Iran's unimpressive economic performance came about as a result of the Iran-Iraq War and the inevitable collapse of oil prices, both of which were beyond the government’s control, in combination with economic sanctions and many self-inflicted and self-destructive policies. Foremost among the...
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negative effect on economy. Also, an increase in employment in service sector was better than industrial sector in supporting … economic growth. Thus, government of Thailand should no longer support agricultural sector but service-based economy instead. …
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As an innovator in the financial system, China was the first to use paper currency. Eventually the form of currency was … control inflation and to maintain financial stability as the government transforms itself from a planned economy to a mixed … market economy. The transforming economy is moving toward a free market system through series of economic reforms. The …
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India versus the United States. We measure sizable gaps … in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly defined industries in China and India compared … observed in the United States, we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30%–50% in China and 40%–60% in India. …
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-synonymous with Beijing’s export-oriented strategy, the Article first discusses the state of the Chinese economy in the post …-global financial crisis era. After reviewing some key indicators of the country’s economy, the Article presents a comparison between a … evolving model in this new era, China’s trade and finance models prospectively present a distinctive modeling of capitalism and …
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