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Trade, Investment, and Growth : Nexus, Analysis, and Prognosis
Krishna, Kala - 1998
This paper looks at the patterns of causation between income, export, import, and investment growth for 25 developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471951
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Growth Accelerations
Hausmann, Ricardo - 2004
since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be correlated with increases in investment and trade, and with real exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468127
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Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution
Chamon, Marcos - 2006
We construct and calibrate a model of the world economy in which countries' opportunities to develop depend on their trade with advanced economies. Trade opportunities in turn depend on the relative population of the advanced and developing world. As developing countries become advanced, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466631
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Trade Orientation, Distortions and Growth in Developing Countries
Edwards, Sebastian - 1991
method of estimation, to correction for errors in variables and for the deletion of outliers. I finally argue that future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475291
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Capital Account Liberalization : Theory, Evidence, and Speculation
Henry, Peter Blair - 2006
has significant effects on the cost of capital, investment, and economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465962
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FDI and Capital Formation in Developing Economies : New Evidence from Industry-level Data
Amighini, Alessia - 2017
We contribute to the long debated issue of whether inward foreign direct investment (FDI) can stimulate investment in … of FDI on total investment - measured as the ratio of gross fixed capital formation to GDP - but only if multinational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455631
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Investment and Growth in Rich and Poor Countries
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2012
This paper revisits the association between investment and growth. The empirical findings highlight substantial … heterogeneity for the effect of investment on growth and suggest a possible negative association. Results based on a battery of … cross-sectional and time-series regressions show that the link between investment and growth has weakened over time and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460870
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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
Rodrik, Dani - 2002
We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions trumps' everything else. Once institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469401
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Trade and Growth : An Empirical Investigation
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1996
Countries' geographic characteristics have important effects on their trade, and are plausibly uncorrelated with other determinants of their incomes. This paper therefore constructs measures of the geographic component of countries' trade and uses those measures to obtain instrumental variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473383
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Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution : New Evidence from the Margins of Trade
Huberman, Michael - 2015
In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457815