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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
Chen, Xi - 2010
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
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Financial Development in 205 Economies, 1960 to 2010
Čihák, Martin - 2013
financial systems around the world. The database provides information on financial systems in 205 economies over the period from …
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Financial Development and the Choice of Trade Partners
Chan, Jackie - 2013
What determines the choice of countries' trade partners? We show theoretically and empirically that financial market imperfections affect the number and identity of exporters' destinations. Bigger economies with lower trade costs are more attractive markets because they offer higher export...
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Can the Doha Round Be a Development Round? Setting a Place at the Table
Bagwell, Kyle - 2014
membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration Since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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The Future of Economic Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
news is that growth in the developing world should depend not on growth in the advanced economies themselves, but on the …
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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151144
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Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities
Elias, Julio - 2017
The regulation of many activities depends on whether societies consider them morally controversial or “repugnant”. Not only have regulation and related ethical concerns changed over time, but there is also heterogeneity across countries at a given time. We provide evidence of this...
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