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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467709

Endogenous Product Cycles

Grossman, Gene M. - 1989

long-run rate of growth of the world economy, and the long-run rate of technological diffusion. We also provide an analysis …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476141

Intellectual Property Rights and North-South Trade

Chin, Judith C. - 1988

, and the consequences of the decision taken by the South for welfare in the North and for efficiency of the world … producer selling some good to an integrated world market. In this competition, only the Northern firm has the ability to … technology and the North harmed by such actions. A strong system of intellectual property rights may or may not enhance world …

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The "New" Economics of Trade Agreements : From Trade Liberalization to Regulatory Convergence?

Grossman, Gene M. - 2019

What incentives do governments have to negotiate "new trade agreements," i.e., agreements that constrain not only governments' choices of tariffs, but also their domestic regulatory policies? We focus on horizontal product standards, i.e., those that impose requirements along a horizontal...

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Heterogeneous Workers and International Trade

Grossman, Gene M. - 2013

In this paper, I survey the recent theoretical literature that incorporates heterogeneous labor into models of international trade. The models with heterogeneous labor have been used to study how talent dispersion can be a source of comparative advantage, how the opening of trade affects the...

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International Trade, Foreign Investment, and the Formation of the Entrepreneurial Class

Grossman, Gene M. - 1983

In this paper, I examine the argument that free trade may be harmful to less developed countries, because such international competition inhibits the formation of a local entrepreneurial class.I view the entrepreneur as the manager of the industrial enterprise, as well as the agent who bears the...

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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty

Beck, Thorsten - 2005

This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...

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A Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics

Grossman, Gene M. - 2004

We develop a novel model of campaigns, elections, and policymaking in which the ex ante objectives of national party leaders differ from the ex post objectives of elected legislators. This generates a distinction between "policy rhetoric" and "policy reality" and introduces an important role for...

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Trade Wars and Trade Talks

Grossman, Gene M. - 1993

Whether governments clash in trade disputes or negotiate over trade agreements, their actions in the international arena reflect political conditions back home. Previous studies of cooperative and noncooperative trade relations have focused on governments that are immune from political pressures...

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