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Trade Policy, Exchange Rates and Growth
Edwards, Sebastian - 2021
This paper analyzes the relationship between trade policy and economic performance. The paper is divided in two fundamental parts. The first one uses a cross country data set to investigate the relationship between trade policy and productivity growth. It is found that countries that are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230598
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Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change : Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
Brown, W. Mark - 2017
We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947017
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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Branstetter, Lee - 2014
This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070725
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
with disdain for work. We propose an economic theory of preference formation where both the divergence of attitudes across … social classes and the ensuing reversal of economic fortunes are equilibrium outcomes. In our theory, parents shape their …, which are rooted in the nature of pre-industrial professions, become key determinants of success once industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777611
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Foreign Direct Investment as a Catalyst for Industrial Development
Markusen, James R. - 2010
How does an FDI project affect local firms in the same industry? Competition in thequot; product and factor markets tends to reduce profits of local firms, but linkage effects to supplierquot; industries may reduce input costs and raise profits. This paper develops an analytical frameworkquot;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763642
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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara - 2014
after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052500
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Externalities and Industrial Development
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2021
Using a panel data set of county-level employment in machinery, electrical machinery, primary metals, transportation, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for individual industries. Key issues examined include the role of externalities from own industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224847
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Industrialization and the Big Push
Murphy, Kevin M.; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W. - 2021
This paper explores Rosenstein-Rodman's (1943) idea that simultaneous industrialization of many sectors of the economy … industrialization as a move from a bad to a good equilibrium. We show that for two equilibria to exist, it must be the case that an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226182
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The Transition to a New Economy after the Second Industrial Revolution
Atkeson, Andrew; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2021
During the Second Industrial Revolution, 1860-1900, many new technologies, including electricity, were invented. These inventions launched a transition to a new economy, a period of about 70 years of ongoing, rapid technical change. After this revolution began, however, several decades passed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212571
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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrializatiion : The Geography of Growth Take-Offs
Baldwin, Richard E.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P; Martin, … - 2021
phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245710