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Coe, David T. - 1995

We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial country that has large 'stocks of knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a...

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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

R&D and Productivity : The International Connection

Helpman, Elhanan - 1997

is argued that significant benefits spill over to other countries in the world. The argument is supported by quantitative …

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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 …

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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan - 2008

This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade liberalization that is consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation within and between industries. While the opening of...

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Globalization and Wage Inequality

Helpman, Elhanan - 2016

Globalization has been blamed for rising inequality in rich and poor countries. Yet the views of many protagonists in … empirical literature on the relationship between globalization and wage inequality. While the initial analysis that started in … cumulative effect has been modest, and that globalization does not explain the preponderance of the rise in wage inequality …

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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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Politics and Trade Policy

Helpman, Elhanan - 1995

First I describe a number of political economy approaches that have been developed to explain trade policies. All approaches are presented in a unified framework that helps to see the key differences among them. These comparisons revolve around tariff formulas that are predicted by political...

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