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Veränderung im öffentlichen Schuldenstand und Wirtschaftswachstum hin. Dabei fördert eine Ausweitung der öffentlichen … Neuverschuldung bis zu einem Schwellenwert temporär das Wirtschaftswachstum, wirkt darüber hinaus jedoch wachstumshemmend. In der …
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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
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Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these micro-breweries and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on private households as well...
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It has been shown that higher capital taxes can have a growth-enhancing effect when combined with a revenue-compensating cut in wage taxes (Uhlig and Yanagawa 1996; European Economic Review 40, 1521-1540) or with an expansion in productivity-increasing public services (Rivas 2003; European Economic...
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The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the last years, despite the modest recovery in advanced economies. The higher divergence of business...
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This paper analyzes the effect of planned fiscal consolidation on GDP growth forecast errors from the years 2010–2013 using cross section analyses and fixed effects estimations. Our main findings are that fiscal multipliers have been underestimated in most instances for the year 2011 while we...
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This paper analyzes whether the expansion of regional airports in Germany caused positive spillover effects on the surrounding economies, exploiting the deregulation of the European aviation market as a quasi-experiment. Such potential spillovers are often used as an argument for the substantial...
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We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth. Being particularly interested in studying the effects ‘at the margin’, we track the relative performance of regions adjacent to both sides of the integration border...
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. Kausalitätstests ergeben eine bidirektionale kausale Beziehung zwischen Energieverbrauch und Wirtschaftswachstum. …
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Der kausale Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen Energieverbrauch und Wirtschaftswachstum ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für … Energieverbrauch einen positiven Einfluss auf das Wirtschaftswachstum, so könnten Energieeinsparungsmaßnahmen einen negativen Effekt … auf das Wirtschaftswachstum haben. Diese Studie analysiert diesen Kausalzusammenhang für 23 OECD Länder im Zeitraum von …
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