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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061096
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
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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How can we anticipate crises?
Vieru, Elena Bianca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
from time to time strongly affecting the world economies. The basic question from where we started our research and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260392
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Agricultural productivity and trade: Argentina and the U.S.A.
Chichilnisky, Graciela; McLeod, D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1984
We study labor productivity in agriculture within a two-region, two factor and two commodity economy. Increases in productivity can lead to higher or to lower agricultural prices, depending on the internal structure of the economy. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for either outcome;...
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Franchise Relocations, Expansions, and Mergers in Professional Sports Leagues
Daniel, Rascher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
All three sections in this chapter are interrelated. Expansions and relocations, especially in the early years of a league, are often the response to upstart rival leagues. More recently, relocations have occurred because another city offers a better facility lease regardless of whether the...
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Resolving the Halperín Paradox: The Terms of Trade and Argentina’s Expansion in the Long Nineteenth Century
Francis, Joseph A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
dramatic pastoral expansion in the first half of the nineteenth century even though there were no price incentives for … methodological error is corrected, a massive term-of-trade boom can be seen from the 1780s through to the First World War. It is … incentives for the expansion on the Pampas. With the Halperín paradox resolved, future research should look less at the Pampean …
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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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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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Crecimiento Económico de Largo Plazo en Antioquia, Colombia : Estimación del PIB, 1800-1913 (Long Term Economic Growth in Antioquia, Colombia: GDP Estimates, 1800-1913)
Mejia, Javier - 2012
Este trabajo realiza el primer análisis cuantitativo detallado del nivel de actividad económica de Antioquia para el siglo XIX y la primera parte del XX. A partir de los datos existentes para la economía colombiana, se reconstruye la que es, además, una de las primeras series de PIB regional...
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