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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315581
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Understanding Reserve Volatility in Emerging Markets: A Look at the Last Thirty Years
Demarmels, Ricarda; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2002
volatility for 30 emerging market economies from 1973 to 2000. We find that reserve holdings and openness to be the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430032
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Understanding Reserve Volatility in Emerging Markets: A Look at the Long-Run
Demarmels, Ricarda; Fischer, Andreas - 2003
economies from 1973 to 2000. Reserve holdings and openness are found to be the most important explanatory variables of reserve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430045
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Public investment in developing countries: A blessing or a curse?
Cavallo, Eduardo; Daude, Christian - 2008
in countries with worse institutions or that lack trade and financial openness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278277
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Takeoffs
Aizenman, Joshua; Spiegel, Mark - 2007
de jure trade openness is positively and significantly associated with takeoffs. A one standard deviation increase in de … jure trade openness is associated with a 55% increase in the probability of a takeoff in our default specification. We also … find evidence that capital account openness encourages takeoff responses, although this channel is less robust. Measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285304
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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321727
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Green credit policy and total factor productivity: Evidence from Chinese listed companies
Guo, Shu; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2022
The green credit policy plays a vital role in promoting enterprise upgrading. Using a thirteen year panel data of listed companies in China (2007 2019), this study uses the difference in differences (DID) method to examine the effects of the Green Credit Guidelines in 2012 (GCG2012) on the firm...
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Barriers to accumulation and productivity differences in a two sector growth model
Landon-Lane, John S.; Robertson, Peter E. - 2005
Barriers to investment are often regarded as an important determinant of the variation in international income levels. Nevertheless, in the standard neoclassical growth model, these barriers have only have small effects on per capita incomes. We consider the effects of barriers to accumulation...
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Entry barriers, competition, and technology adoption
Fang, Lei - 2009
There are large differences in income per capita across countries. Growth accounting finds that a large part of the differences comes from the differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This paper explores whether barrier to entry is an important factor for the cross-country differences in...
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Investment climate and total factor productivity in manufacturing: Analysis of Indian states
Veeramani, C.; Goldar, Bishwanath - 2004
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