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Exploring OECD SDGs Pilot City's 50-Year Time Series Data and Its Environmental Kuznets Curves
Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2019
Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding …, falling dust particle, and SOx highlight a trilemma among the growth of industrial firms, infrastructure development, and … developing a regulatory framework that can harmonize a low-carbon society with industrial and infrastructure development …
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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007
We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure … the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We … also depart from this literature by mixing principal components (to condense our institutional and infrastructure measures …
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When Should an Incumbent Be Obliged to Share its Infrastructure with an Entrant Under the General Competition Rules?
Bergman, Mats - 2003
According to the essential facilities doctrine, competition law requires an infrastructural monopoly to provide access. Under the "Bronner criterion", proposed by the EC Court, the doctrine is only applicable when an infrastructural duopoly is non-viable. This paper uses a simple model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321538
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Global Inflation
Ciccarelli, Matteo; Mojon, Benoît - 2008
This paper shows that in ation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, the inflation rates of 22 OECD countries have a common factor that alone accounts for nearly 70 percent of their variance. This large variance share that is associated with Global Inflation is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292130
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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy
Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024
Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054229
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Can government policies increase national long-run growth rates?
Landon-Lane, John S.; Robertson, Peter E. - 2001
We obtain time series estimates of the long run growth rates of 17 OECD countries, and test the hypothesis that these are the same across countries. We find that we cannot reject this hypothesis for the first and last three decades of the 20th century. We conclude that: (i) there are few, if...
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Fiscal fragility: what the past may say about the future
Aizenman, Joshua; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - 2010
The end of the great moderation has profound implications on the assessment of fiscal sustainability. The pertinent issue goes beyond the increase in stock of public debt/GDP induced by the global recession, to include the perspective that the sustainability of a given public debt/GDP depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287758
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Fiscal fragility: What the past says about the future
Aizenman, Joshua; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - 2010
The end of the great moderation has profound implications on the assessment of fiscal sustainability. The pertinent issue goes beyond the obvious increase in the stock of public debt/GDP induced by the global recession, to include the neglected perspective that the vulnerabilities associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288164
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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence
Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012
This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293266
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The impact of inflation targeting on unemployment in developing and emerging economies
Divino, Jose Angelo - 2009
Several countries around the world have adopted the inflation targeting regime for monetary policy. Despite the growing literature on the issue, it is not clear whether developing and emerging countries can improve their economic performance by adopting inflation targeting. This working paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293308