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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
Deaton, Angus - 2008
, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World … Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world is also covered in the PPP accounts produced by the OECD and the …; version 7.0 of the Penn World Table will soon incorporate these results. The 2005 ICP, like earlier rounds, involved …
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Mauritius : African Success Story
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2010
What explains the success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? It has mostly followed growth-enhancing policies, which can in turn be attributed to sound institutions. But from where did the institutions come? Mauritius chose well around the time of independence in 1968, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462088
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Technology and Economic Performance in the American Economy
Gordon, Robert J. - 2002
This paper examines the sources of the U. S. macroeconomic miracle of 1995-2000 and attempts to distinguish among permanent sources of American leadership in high-technology industries, as contrasted with the particular post-1995 episode of technological acceleration, and with other independent...
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Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1994
Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims that inadequate accumulation of public capital has contributed to substandard U.S. economic growth. Despite this, the link between infrastructure and productivity growth...
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AI and the Economy
Furman, Jason - 2018
We review the evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is having a large effect on the economy. Across a variety of …
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Civil War
Blattman, Christopher - 2009
Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed an explosion of research into the causes and consequences of civil wars, belatedly bringing the topic into the economics mainstream. This article critically reviews this interdisciplinary...
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Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth : Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap
Bakkensen, Laura - 2018
into macroeconomic climate-economy models. This paper proposes a joint empirical-structural approach to bridge this gap for …
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Mitigating Disaster Risks to Sustain Growth
Hong, Harrison - 2020
We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about arrival rates and spend to mitigate future damages. Mitigation cannot be decentralized due to positive externalities from curtailing aggregate risks. First-best can be implemented...
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Climate Change and Economic Growth : Evidence from the Last Half Century
Dell, Melissa - 2008
climatic changes on economic activity throughout the world. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures …
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Climate Change and Growth Risks
Bansal, Ravi - 2016
To study the welfare implications of rising temperature we propose a temperature-augmented long-run risks model that accounts for the interaction between temperature, economic growth and risk. The model simultaneously matches the projected temperature path, the observed consumption growth...
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