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The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
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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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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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This paper investigates the time-varying correlation between the EU12-wide business cycle and the initial EU12 member-countries based on Scalar-BEKK and multivariate Riskmetrics model frameworks for the period 1980-2012. The paper provides evidence that changes in the business cycle...
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-cyclical to home country volatility but counter-cyclical to the volatility in host countries. This result does not hold for high … income counties for which remittance inflows are acyclical to home country volatility but pro-cyclical to the volatility in … host countries. For a host country, remittance outflows are counter-cyclical to the volatility of home countries. Trade …
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Iranian government budget on military over the last decade has been higher than the average of the world. The current …
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Using two data series, namely GDP and the index of industrial production, we study the relationship between output variability and the growth rate of output. Ng-Perron unit root test shows that the growth rate of GDP is non-stationary but the growth rate of industrial output is stationary. Thus,...
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This study examines the effects of terms of trade and its volatility on economic growth for a sample of 94 developed … estimation results indicate significant positive effect of terms of trade on economic growth. Furthermore, volatility of terms of … has been performed using different additional variables, sample size and various proxies of volatility variable. The …
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, growth volatility emerge. This indeterminacy can be eliminated by an institutional mechanism that commits to a minimum level … growth path, we argue that such structural differences can account for the negative correlation between volatility and growth. …
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This paper investigated the effect of terms of trade growth and its volatility on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa … effect on economic growth. Furthermore, the result proved that volatility of net barter terms of trade and income terms of … volatility measures. …
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