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The experience curve and the market size of competitive consumer durable markets
Kaldasch, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
An evolutionary model of the product life cycle is applied to derive the experience curve and the market size of (expensive) durable goods. The experience (learning) curve suggests that the real costs per unit decrease with an increasing cumulative output (Henderson's law). Based on the idea...
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Evolutionary Model of Non-Durable Markets
Kaldasch, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Presented is an evolutionary model of consumer non-durable markets, which is an extension of a previously published paper on consumer durables. The model suggests that the repurchase process is governed by preferential growth. Applying statistical methods it can be shown that in a competitive...
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Evolutionary and new growth theories: are they converging?
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The article presents a critical review of evolutionary and new growth theories. The purpose is to discuss the often-made claim that the two approaches, both inspired by Schumpeter’s seminal work, are becoming more and more similar in terms of the sources and mechanisms of the growth process on...
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A critical realist interpretation of evolutionary growth theorising
Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The article discusses a critical realist interpretation of evolutionary growth theorising by focusing on some of its basic characteristics. The evolutionary ontology is complex, differentiated, structured, systemic, open, ever-changing, and radically uncertain. Its methodology tends to be...
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1070 to 1990
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970 …-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In … determinants of changes in this ratio, using regression analysis. The results indicate that gender equity in quality …
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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
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Revisiting the Relationships Between Non-Renewable Energy Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth in Iran
Nasre Esfahani, Mohammad - 2016
Exploring the short-run and long-run relationships between consumption of various sources of non-renewable energy, economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would be considered as a golden key to provide rational energy policies of Iran in the post sanctions era. The aim of this paper...
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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?
Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014
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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